Subaltern Narratives In Fiji Hindi Literature

Author : Vijay Mishra
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781839990717

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Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature by Vijay Mishra Pdf

Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature is the first comprehensive study of fiction written in Fiji Hindi that moves beyond the hegemonic and colonially-implicated perspectives that have necessarily informed top-down historical accounts. Mishra makes this case using two extraordinary novels Ḍaukā Purān [‘A Subaltern Tale’] (2001]) and Fiji Maa [‘Mother of a Thousand’] (2018) by the Fiji Indian writer Subramani. They are massive novels (respectively 500 and 1,000 pages long) written in the devanāgarī (Sanskrit) script. They are examples of subaltern writing that do not exist, as a legitimation of the subaltern voice, anywhere else in the world. The novels constitute the silent underside of world literature, whose canon they silently challenge. For postcolonial, diaspora and subaltern scholars, they are defining (indeed definitive) texts without which their theories remain incomplete. Theories require mastery of primary texts and these subaltern novels, ‘heroic’ compositions as they are in the vernacular, offer a challenge to the theorist.

Author : Vijay Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134096916

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The Literature of the Indian Diaspora by Vijay Mishra Pdf

The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery, and the ‘new’ diaspora linked to movements of late capital, Mishra argues that a full understanding of the Indian diaspora can only be achieved if attention is paid to the particular locations of both the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ in nation states. Applying a theoretical framework based on trauma, mourning/impossible mourning, spectres, identity, travel, translation, and recognition, Mishra uses the term ‘imaginary’ to refer to any ethnic enclave in a nation-state that defines itself, consciously or unconsciously, as a group in displacement. He examines the works of key writers, many now based across the globe in Canada, Australia, America and the UK, – V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, M.G. Vassanji, Shani Mootoo, Bharati Mukherjee, David Dabydeen, Rohinton Mistry and Hanif Kureishi, among them – to show how they exemplify both the diasporic imaginary and the respective traumas of the ‘old’ and ‘new’ Indian diasporas.

Author : Anjali Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000782981

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Voices and Silences by Anjali Singh Pdf

Indian indentured emigration is among the most notable social phenomena of modern history, which sent over one million men and women to tropical sugar colonies in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Indenture began in the 1830s and lasted till 1920; a period which finds little or no mention either in history textbooks or in literature. This book takes a closer look at some of the important narratives on indenture and evaluates them in order to highlight the experience of the indentured people across the plantation colonies in Fiji and in the Caribbean. The story of indenture is the story of betrayal, of trauma and of resistance. It is also a narrative of resilience, assimilation and acculturation. This book offers an in-depth literary study to reveal that there exists a language of indenture, one that permeates all the texts written on the subject. The texts speak to, and for each other, thereby revealing the indenture experience to the reader.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Knowledge, Sociology of
ISBN : UOM:39015076160830

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Pacific Epistemologies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106017944312

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Span by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laura Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009080279

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The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery by Laura Murphy Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery reveals the way recent scholarship in the field of slavery studies has taken a more expansive turn, in terms of both the geographical and the temporal. These new studies perform area studies-driven analyses of the representation of slavery from national or regional literary traditions that are not always considered by scholars of slavery and explore the diverse range of unfreedoms depicted therein. Literary scholars of China, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa provide original scholarly arguments about some of the most trenchant themes that arise in the literatures of slavery – authentication and legitimation, ethnic formation and globalization, displacement, exile, and alienation, representation and metaphorization, and resistance and liberation. This Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery is designed to highlight the shifting terrain in literary studies of slavery and collectively challenge the reductive notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.

Author : Mrinalini Sinha,Manu Goswami
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350239791

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Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India by Mrinalini Sinha,Manu Goswami Pdf

This volume reconsiders India's 20th century though a specific focus on the concepts, conjunctures and currency of its distinct political imaginaries. Spanning the divide between independence and partition, it highlights recent historical debates that have sought to move away from a nation-centred mode of political history to a broader history of politics that considers the complex contexts within which different political imaginaries emerged in 20th century India. Representing the first attempt to grasp the shifting modes and meanings of the 'political' in India, this book explores forms of mass protest, radical women's politics, civil rights, democracy, national wealth and mobilization against the indentured-labor system, amongst other themes. In linking 'the political' to shifts in historical temporality, Political Imaginaries in 20th century India extends beyond the interdisciplinary arena of South Asian studies to cognate late colonial and post-colonial formations in the twentieth century and contribute to the 'political turn' in scholarship.

Author : Ato Quayson,Ankhi Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009299954

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Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum by Ato Quayson,Ankhi Mukherjee Pdf

Leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English Literary Curriculum from decolonial perspectives.

Author : Vijay Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134096923

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The Literature of the Indian Diaspora by Vijay Mishra Pdf

Exploring the work of key writers from across the globe, this significant contribution to diaspora theory constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora.

Author : Modern Language Association of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026449327

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Modern Language Association of America Pdf

Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-

Author : Mariam Pirbhai
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802099648

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Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture by Mariam Pirbhai Pdf

Pirbhai uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji.

Author : Laura R. Brueck
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231166041

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Writing Resistance by Laura R. Brueck Pdf

Writing Resistance is the first close study of the growing body of contemporary Hindi-language Dalit (low caste) literature in India. The Dalit literary movement has had an immense sociopolitical and literary impact on various Indian linguistic regions, yet few scholars have attempted to situate the form within contemporary critical frameworks. Laura R. BrueckÕs approach goes beyond recognizing and celebrating the subaltern speaking, emphasizing the sociopolitical perspectives and literary strategies of a range of contemporary Dalit writers working in Hindi. Brueck explores several essential questions: what makes Dalit literature Dalit? What makes it good? Why is this genre important, and where does it oppose or intersect with other bodies of Indian literature? She follows the debate among Dalit writers as they establish a specifically Dalit literary critical approach, underscoring the significance of the Dalit literary sphere as a ÒcounterpublicÓ generating contemporary Dalit social and political identities. Brueck then performs close readings of contemporary Hindi Dalit literary prose narratives, focusing on the aesthetic and stylistic strategies deployed by writers whose class, gender, and geographic backgrounds shape their distinct voices. By reading Dalit literature as literature, this study unravels the complexities of its sociopolitical and identity-based origins.

Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781922144614

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Chalo Jahaji by Brij V. Lal Pdf

“It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or the economist who wish to see the proper integration of their disciplines in a major historical work.” Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Author : Vijay Mishra
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438413303

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The Gothic Sublime by Vijay Mishra Pdf

This book reads the Gothic corpus with a thoroughly postmodern critical apparatus, pointing out that the Gothic Sublime anticipates our own doomed desire to pass beyond the hyperreal. A highly sophisticated theoretical reading of key texts of the Gothic, this book allows the reader to re-live the Gothic, not simply as a nostalgic relic or a pre-romantic aberration, but as a living presence that has strong resonances with the postmodern condition.

Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781922144911

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Turnings by Brij V. Lal Pdf

Through Dr Lal's refreshingly clear and powerful prose and sharply observed stories, we enter the inner world of Indo-Fijian feeling and aspiration. One universal that emerges with particular clarity in the Indo-Fijian experience is the ceaseless struggle to find community in a changing world, balancing the beauty of ritual and tradition against the transcendent value of education and modern rationality. The volume poses the question of how people draw upon historical memory and immediate circumstances to create a social world, and how that world can be shared with others in multicultural society. The answer seems to lie somewhere between history and poetry, as in Dr Lal's 'factions'.