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Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India

By: Nalini Natarajan

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Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India

By: Nalini Natarajan

India has a rich literary assemblage produced by its many different regional traditions, religious faiths, ethnic subcultures and linguistic groups. The published literature of the 20th century is a particularly interesting subject and is the focus of this book, as it represents the provocative conjuncture of the transitions of Indian modernity. This reference book surveys the major regional literatures of contemporary India in the context of the country's diversity and heterogeneity. Chapters are devoted to particular regions, and the arrangement of the work invites comparisons of literary traditions. Chapters provide extensive bibliographies of primary works, thus documenting the creative achievement of numerous contemporary Indian authors. Some chapters cite secondary works as well, and the volume concludes with a list of general works providing further information. An introductory essay overviews theoretical concerns, ideological and aesthetic considerations, developments in various genres, and the history of publishing in regional literatures. The introduction provides a context for approaching the chapters that follow, each of which is devoted to the literature of a particular region. Each chapter begins with a concise introductory section. The body of each chapter is structured according to social and historical events, literary forms, or broad descriptive or analytic trends, depending on the particular subject matter. Each chapter then closes with an extensive bibliography of primary works, thus documenting the rich literary tradition of the region. Some chapters also cite secondary sources as an aid to the reader. The final chapters of the book address special topics, such as sub-cultural literatures, or the interplay between literature and film. A list of additional sources of general information concludes the volume.

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451

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031303267X

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9780313032677

Romance and Power in the Hollywood Eastern

By: Nalini Natarajan

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Romance and Power in the Hollywood Eastern

By: Nalini Natarajan

This book develops the idea of the "Eastern" as an analytically significant genre of film. Positioned in counterpoint to the Western, the famed cowboy genre of the American frontier, the “Eastern” encompasses films that depict the eastern and southern frontiers of Euro-American expansion. Examining six films in particular—Gunga Din (1939), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Heat and Dust (1983), A Passage to India (1984), Indochine (1992), and The English Patient (1996)—the author explores the duality of the "Eastern" as both aggressive and seductive, depicting conquest and romance at the same time. In juxtaposing these two elements, the book seeks to reveal the double process by which the “Eastern” both diminishes the "East" and Global South and reinforces ignorance about these regions’ histories and complexity, thereby setting the stage for ever-escalating political aggression.

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207

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Springer Nature

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3030609944

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9783030609948

Roots and Reflections

South Asians in the Pacific Northwest

By: Amy Bhatt,Nalini Iyer

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Roots and Reflections

South Asians in the Pacific Northwest

By: Amy Bhatt,Nalini Iyer

Immigrants from South Asia first began settling in Washington and Oregon in the nineteenth century, but because of restrictions placed on Asian immigration to the United States in the early twentieth century, the vast majority have come to the region since World War II. Roots and Reflections uses oral history to show how South Asian immigrant experiences were shaped by the region and how they differed over time and across generations. It includes the stories of immigrants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka who arrived from the end of World War II through the 1980s. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHjtOvH0YdU&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw&index=3&feature=plcp

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300

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University of Washington Press

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0295804556

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9780295804552

The Resonating Island

The Caribbean in Postcolonial Dialogue

By: Nalini Natarajan

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The Resonating Island

The Caribbean in Postcolonial Dialogue

By: Nalini Natarajan

From the reverberations of Madras and Kerala in the vegetation, fried fish and coco frio of Pinones to the visual reflections of Bombay in urban San Juan and of Goa in the Spanish architecture of Old San Juan, Nalini Natarajan has claimed an extraordinary kinship with the Caribbean in general and Puerto Rico in particular. Following the post-colonial trajectory of her generation of young Indians in search of new worlds to settle in, the affinity is at once visceral, environmental, historical and primarily political. The Resonating Island is an attempt to understand this affinity through her own disciplinary insertion into scholarship-namely through the medium of literary-cultural interpretation.

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1935163965

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Book's by Nalini Natarajan

Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India

Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India

Romance and Power in the Hollywood Eastern

Romance and Power in the Hollywood Eastern

Roots and Reflections

Roots and Reflections

The Resonating Island

The Resonating Island

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