Format:
xxxi, 308 p. S.
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816633657
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0816633665
Content:
"Nair's book gives postcolonialism a decent burial and looks forward to 'a new language of community.' It exposes the 'numbing rituals of colonial and postcolonial indifference' with a light touch, pausing on postmodern theories on the way." -Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Note:
Includes index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: INTERLOCUTION: THE ARRANGEMENT OF COUCHES; 1. Reading Texts, Resurrecting Cultures: Colonial Poetry in India (1757-1857); 2. The Pedigree of the White Stallion: Postcoloniality and Literary History; 3. Translation as a Speech Act: Twelve Versions of One Subversive Verse; PART II: CIRUMLOCUTION: THE INSTITUTION OF INDIFFERENCE; 4. Glossolalia: The Dissimilar Twins of Language and Literature; 5. Multiculturalism: Other Worlds in Edgar Allan Poe and Satyajit Ray; 6. Colonization: Omeros Sails between the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean
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PART III: DELOCUTION: THE SACRALIZATION OF SUBJECTS7. Acts of Agency and Acts of God: Postcolonial Narratives of Disaster; 8. The Testament of the Tenth Muse: Toward a Feminist Sensibility; 9. A Fatwa against Indifference?: Of Shamianas, Death, and the Platonic Censors; Postscript; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816633654
Additional Edition:
Print version Lying on the Postcolonial Couch : The Idea of Indifference
Language:
English
