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Posthumanism

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques of traditional humanism, revealing its exclusionary and ‘speciesist’ politics that position the human as a distinctive and dominant life form. He then contextualizes the posthumanist vision which, drawing upon biomedical, engineering and techno-scientific studies, concludes that human consciousness is shaped by its co-evolution with other life forms, and our human form inescapably influenced by tools and technology. Finally the book explores posthumanism’s roots in disability studies, animal studies and bioethics to underscore the constructed nature of ‘normalcy’ in bodies, and the singularity of species and life itself. As this book powerfully demonstrates, posthumanism marks a radical reassessment of the human as constituted by symbiosis, assimilation, difference and dependence upon and with other species. Mapping the terrain of these far-reaching debates, Posthumanism will be an invaluable companion to students of cultural studies and modern and contemporary literature.

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0745688578

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The Human Rights Graphic Novel

Drawing it Just Right

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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The Human Rights Graphic Novel

Drawing it Just Right

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This book studies human rights discourse across a variety of graphic novels, both fiction and non-fiction, originating in different parts of the world, from India to South Africa, Sarajevo to Vietnam, with texts on the Holocaust, the Partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Rwandan and Sarajevan genocides, the Vietnam War, comfort women in World War II and the Civil Rights movement in the USA, to mention a few. The book demonstrates the emergence of the ‘universal’ subject of human rights, despite the variations in contexts. It shows how war, rape, genocide, abuse, social iniquity, caste and race erode personhood in multiple ways in the graphic novel, which portrays the construction of vulnerable subjects, the cultural trauma of collectives, the crisis and necessity of witnessing, and resilience-resistance through specific representational and aesthetic strategies. It covers a large number of authors and artists: Joe Sacco, Joe Kubert, Matt Johnson-Walter Pleece, Guy Delisle, Appupen, Thi Bui, Olivier Kugler and others. Through a study of these vastly different authors and styles, the book proposes that the graphic novel as a form is perfectly suited to the ‘culture’ and the lingua franca of human rights due to its amenability to experimentation and the sheer range within the form. The book will appeal to scholars in comics studies, human rights studies, visual culture studies and to the general reader with an interest in these fields.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000224236

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The Indian Graphic Novel

Nation, history and critique

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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The Indian Graphic Novel

Nation, history and critique

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This book is a detailed study of the Indian graphic novel as a significant category of South Asian literature. It focuses on the genre’s engagement with history, memory and cultural identity and its critique of the nation in the form of dissident histories and satire. Deploying a nuanced theoretical framework, the volume closely examines major texts such as The Harappa Files, Delhi Calm, Kari, Bhimayana, Gardener in the Wasteland, Pao Anthology, and authors and illustrators including Sarnath Banerjee, Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Durgabai Vyam, Amrutha Patil, Srividya Natarajan and others. It also explores — using key illustrations from the texts — critical themes like contested and alternate histories, urban realities, social exclusion, contemporary politics, and identity politics. A major intervention in Indian writing in English, this volume will be of great importance to scholars and researchers of South Asian literature, cultural studies, art and visual culture, and sociology.

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Routledge

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1317334043

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Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire

1830–1940

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire

1830–1940

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire studies a variety of travel narratives by Indian kings, evangelists, statesmen, scholars, merchants, leisure travellers and reformers. It identifies the key modes through which the Indian traveller engaged with Europe and the world-from aesthetic evaluations to cosmopolitan nationalist perceptions, from exoticism to a keen sense of connected and global histories. These modes are constitutive of the identity of the traveller. The book demonstrates how the Indian traveller defied the prescriptive category of the 'imperial subject' and fashions himself through this multilayered engagement with England, Europe and the world in different identities.

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9389812402

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Ecoprecarity

Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Ecoprecarity

Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture presents an examination of ecoprecarity - the precarious lives that humans lead in the process and event of ecological disaster, and the increasing precarious state of the environment itself as a result of human interventions - in contemporary literary-cultural texts. It studies the representation of 'invasion narratives' of the human body and the earth by alien life forms, the ecodystopian vision that informs much environmental thought in popular cultures, the states of ontological integrity and genetic belonging in the age of cloning, xenotransplantation and biotechnology's 'capitalisation' of life itself, and the construction of the 'wild' in these texts. It pays attention to the ecological uncanny and the monstrous that haunts ecodystopias and forms of natureculture that emerge in the bioeconomies since the late twentieth century.

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1000021254

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Colonial Voices

The Discourses of Empire

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Colonial Voices

The Discourses of Empire

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even as they helped the English fashion themselves. An engaging examination of European colonizers’ representations of native populations Analyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range of primary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues, administrative reports, and travelogues Surveys 400 years of India’s history, from the 16th century to the end of the British Empire Demonstrates how colonial discourses naturalized the racial and cultural differences between the English and the Indians, and controlled anxieties over these differences

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118278976

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The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Features a brief introduction to postcolonial theory and a list of suggested further reading that includes the texts in which many of these terms originated Each entry includes the origins of the term, where traceable; a detailed explanation of its perceived meaning; and examples of the term’s use in literary-cultural texts Incorporates terms and concepts from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, literary studies, science, economics, globalization studies, politics, and philosophy Provides an ideal companion text to the forthcoming Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology, which is also edited by Pramod K. Nayar, a highly-respected authority in the field

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1118781023

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The Extreme in Contemporary Culture

States of Vulnerability

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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The Extreme in Contemporary Culture

States of Vulnerability

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in ‘extreme cultures’. These are cultural practices and representations of humans in risky, painful or life-threatening conditions where the limits of their humanity are tested, and producing heightened sensations of pain and pleasure. Extreme cultures in this book signal the social ontology of humans where, in specific conditions, vulnerability becomes helplessness. We see in these cultures the exploitation of the body’s immanent vulnerability in involuntary conditions of torture or deprivation, the encounter with extreme situations where the body is rendered incapacitated from performing routine functions due to structural conditions or in a voluntary embracing of risk in sporting events wherein the body pits itself against enormous forces and conditions. The Extreme in Contemporary Culture studies vulnerability across various conditions: torture, disease, accident. It studies spaces of vulnerability and helplessness, the aesthetics and representations of vulnerability, the extreme in the everyday and, finally, the witnessing of (in)human extremes. Extreme cultures suggest shared precarity as a foundational condition of humanity. A witness culture emerges through the cultural discourse of vulnerability, the representations of the victim and/or survivor, and the accounts of witnesses. They offer, in short, an entire new way of speaking about and classifying the human.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1783483679

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Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed

By: David A. Jasen,Pramod K. Nayar

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Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed

By: David A. Jasen,Pramod K. Nayar

Guide To The often complex area of postcolonial theory and literature from its historical origins to contemporary critical thinking and issues.

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A&C Black

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0826400469

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9780826400468

Writing Wrongs

The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Writing Wrongs

The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This book examines the ‘cultural apparatus’ of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries. Moving across multiple media and genres for their representations of Dalits, riot victims, prisoners, abused and abandoned women and children, examining the formal properties of victim texts for their documentation of trauma, and analyzing the role of the sympathetic imagination, Writing Wrongs inaugurates a whole new field in literary–cultural studies by focusing on the narratives that build the culture of Human Rights. It argues for taking this cultural apparatus as essential to the political and legal dimensions of Human Rights. The book emphasizes the need for an ethical turn to literary–cultural studies and a cultural turn to Human Rights studies, arguing that a public culture of Human Rights has a key role to play in revitalizing civil society and its institutions. It will be of interest to Human Rights scholars and activists, and those in political science, sociology, literary and cultural studies, narrative theory and psychology.

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1317809092

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The ‘Civilisational Mission’

From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, The Imperial Archive, Volume 5

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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The ‘Civilisational Mission’

From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, The Imperial Archive, Volume 5

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935435839X

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Human Rights and Literature

Writing Rights

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Human Rights and Literature

Writing Rights

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, plays and poetry, and through them considers representations of Human Rights and their violations. Examining violated bodies and subjects, the settings and environments in which these are embedded and the witnessing of atrocities, it considers how the ‘subject’ (or ‘person’ of Human Rights) emerges within fiction or poetry. Structured so as to move outward from the individual body to the world, the study progresses from the preconditions or settings for Human Rights violations through to atrocity, from witnessing to the making of a specific kind of public around traumatic recall. It addresses representations of destroyed corporeality and subjectivity, the violations and dissolution of the subject and the construction of trauma-memory citizenship to the making of communities of mourning. Through a broad study of texts from different genres, this text reveals how Literature both documents the basic human aspirations of happiness, security and hope, but also the limitations and the violations of these aspirations.

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1137504323

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Reading Culture

Theory, Praxis, Politics

By: Pramod K Nayar

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Reading Culture

Theory, Praxis, Politics

By: Pramod K Nayar

The theory, methods and politics of cultural studies are examined in this book which is concerned with the ways in which public culture reflects the relations between identities, race, gender and class. Adapting a range of theories and approaches, the author demonstrates how a cultural form effectively disseminates meanings - a political act - by marginalizing certain identities, norms, modes of thinking and knowledges while valuing others. The book covers topics as diverse as comic book superheroes, patriotic songs in Hindi films, the projection of ′authenticity′ in tourist brochures and the poetics of display in museums.

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076193474X

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Vulnerable Earth

The Literature of Climate Crisis

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Vulnerable Earth

The Literature of Climate Crisis

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Shows how the literature of climate crisis foregrounds a feature that humans and nonhumans, share, differentially, with the planet: vulnerability.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009496913

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Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure

From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, The Imperial Archive, Volume 3

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure

From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, The Imperial Archive, Volume 3

By: Pramod K. Nayar

India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 3 Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure shifts the focus to the English home and social life. Domesticity, often a fraught exercise for the 'memsahib', carried on with the assistance of a retinue of Indian servants, meant tackling corruption, inefficiency and the all-pervasive social hierarchy of the colonised. Advice books were produced to aid the memsahib for this purpose. The Steel-Gardiner guide to housekeeping, which was a bestseller in its day and is excerpted here, was indispensable in the length and breadth of its coverage, from the care of children to the right wages for the servants. Diver's text, likewise, also demonstrates how running the home was difficult and has a resonance with the (male) dominion of running the Empire. These texts exhorted the English woman to practice thrift, control and managerial skills, to be aware of the natives' penchant for dirt and indolence and the caste-community dynamics that inform the servant-class.

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9354358705

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9789354358708

The Raj

A Journey through Ten Documents

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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The Raj

A Journey through Ten Documents

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This is a cultural history of the British Empire in India presented through ten key non-literary texts. Each of these texts embodies a particular attitude, ideology and/or development in imperial thinking, administrative process or cultural practices, and it is this attitude, ideology and development that the book unpacks through a reading of the texts, along with excerpts from the original documents. The aim is to flag and signpost momentous events and ideas through imperial texts such as J.Z. Holwell's 1756 account of the Black Hole of Calcutta, T.B. Macaulay's 1835 'Minute' on Indian education and Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner's 1888 advice book on colonial domesticity, The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook. Through this book, it is hoped, the reader will get a flavour and glimpse of the complex and complicated structure that was the Raj. The book will appeal not only to the academic audience and literary scholars keen on the rhetoric of empire but also to the general, informed readers.

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9354355633

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Citizenship and Identity in the Age of Surveillance

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Citizenship and Identity in the Age of Surveillance

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A study of cultures of surveillance, from CCTV to genetic data-gathering and the new forms of subjectivities and citizenships that are thus forged.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107080584

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Essays in Celebrity Culture

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Essays in Celebrity Culture

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The collection of essays in the book moves from the largest domain of celebrity culture in India – Bollywood – through celebrity life writing and biopics and, finally, to the politics of and by celebrity culture. The book begins with an exploration of films made around celebrity victims to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of Bollywood stars’ philanthropic and humanitarian work and, finally, to celebrity charisma and its role in the current era of ‘post-truth.’ Two studies of celebrity biopics and auto/biographies – from sports stars to Bollywood stars – and their disease memoirs are included. Finally, a section of essays are devoted to celebrity cultural politics, including Indian writing as a celebrity, the Narmada River as a celebrity, the desacralization of celebrity statues, Arundhati Roy’s celebrated and celebrity activism and the self-fashioning of Indian authors in the age of digital culture.

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Anthem Press

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178527788X

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The British Raj: Keywords

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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The British Raj: Keywords

By: Pramod K. Nayar

During the course of governing India — the Raj — a number of words came to have particular meanings in the imperial lexicon. This book documents the words and terms that the British used to describe, define, understand and judge the subcontinent. It offers insights into the cultures of the Raj, through a sampling of its various terms, concepts and nomenclature, and utilizes critical commentaries on specific domains to illuminate not only the linguistic meaning of a word but its cultural and political nuances. It also provides literary and cultural texts from the colonial canon where these Anglo-Indian colloquialisms, terms and official jargon occurred.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351972421

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Frantz Fanon

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Frantz Fanon

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This book serves as an introduction to the views of the anticolonial thinker Frantz Fanon and charts his influence on postcolonial studies, literary critism, and cultural studies.

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0415602971

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The Transnational in English Literature

Shakespeare to the Modern

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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The Transnational in English Literature

Shakespeare to the Modern

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The Transnational in English Literature examines English literary history through its transnational engagements and argues that every period of English Literature can be examined through its global relations. English identity and nationhood is therefore defined through its negotiation with other regions and cultures. The first book to look at the entirety of English literature through a transnational lens, Pramod Nayar: Maps the discourses that constitute the global in every age, from the Early Modern to the twentieth century Offers readings of representative texts in poetry, fiction, essay and drama, covering a variety of genres such as Early Modern tragedy, the adventure novel, the narrative poem, Gothic and utopian fiction Examines major authors including Shakespeare, Defoe, Behn, Swift, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, Doyle, Ballantyne, Orwell, Conrad, Kipling, Forster Looks at themes such as travel and discovery, exoticism, mercantilism, commodities, the civilisational mission and the multiculturalization of England. Useful for students and academics alike this book offers a comprehensive survey of the English canon questioning and analysing the transnational and global engagements of English literature.

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1317608410

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Indian People and Society

From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, The Imperial Archive, Volume 2

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Indian People and Society

From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, The Imperial Archive, Volume 2

By: Pramod K. Nayar

India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 2 Indian People and Society includes English studies of Indian languages, people and communities, and the social order. The landscape provided, understandably, endless prospects of the survey and the map. But the British were also keen on documenting the people. In the studies generated for 400 years, the British documented castes, religions, education, economies, professions, cultural practices, states of health and sickness, and other domains. With projects like the Census and the People of India, the land's inhabitants were classified and, eventually, also typecast and contributed to the colonial discourse about the native/colonised.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9354356664

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English Writing and India, 1600–1920

Colonizing Aesthetics

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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English Writing and India, 1600–1920

Colonizing Aesthetics

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India. Looking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift in the rhetoric – from the exploration narratives from the age of mercantile exploration to that of the ‘shikar’ memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s extreme exotic. English Writing and India provides an important new study of colonial aesthetics, even as it extends current scholarship on the modes of early British representations of new lands and cultures.

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113413150X

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‘Discoveries’, Explorations and the Imperial Survey

From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, The Imperial Archive, Volume 1

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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‘Discoveries’, Explorations and the Imperial Survey

From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, The Imperial Archive, Volume 1

By: Pramod K. Nayar

India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 1 'Discoveries', Explorations and the Imperial Survey consists of documents that deal with England's discovery of India, its exploration and mapping of the subcontinent. The texts collected here are accounts of how the British 'discovered' the subcontinent. The narrative of discovery, with the freshness of the 'new', was couched very often in the rhetoric of wonder. But this sense of wonder, even astonishment in some cases at the variety, magnitude and sheer difference of the land and its people, was tempered over time with a narrative of exploration. If the 'discovery' moment had a surprise, awe and a sense of uncertainty at facing something totally new-which, in many ways, the subcontinent was-in the early writings of the seventeenth century, the tone, emphasis and attitude shifts later on.

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9354356508

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Nuclear Cultures

Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Nuclear Cultures

Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events. Examining multiple discourses and textual materials, including fiction, poetry, biographies, comics, paintings, documentary and photography, this volume will illuminate the cultural, ecological and social impact of nuclearization narratives. Furthermore, this text explores themes such as the cultures of atomic scientists, the making of the bomb, nuclear bombings and disasters, nuclear aesthetics and art, and the global mobilization against nuclearization. Nuclear Cultures breaks new ground in the debates on "the nuclear" to foster the development of nuclear humanities, its vocabulary and methodology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000804623

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Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

By: Pramod K. Nayar

The book studies the cultural texts—fiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reports—produced around the world’s worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological Gothic, wherein the city, its landscape and its people are Gothicized. After tracing the history of the disaster as a history of negligence, the book proceeds in later chapters to study the coverage of the events themselves by eyewitnesses and survivors, and the remnants, in various forms, of the disaster – the haunting – within human bodies and nature. Finally, it examines the industrial ruins and the mobilization of protests against Union Carbide.

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Lexington Books

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1498540465

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Rebellions and Wars

From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, The Imperial Archive, Volume 4

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, The Imperial Archive, Volume 4

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs

Poetics of the Forgetting Self

By: Pramod K Nayar

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Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs

Poetics of the Forgetting Self

By: Pramod K Nayar

This book examines writings by people living with Alzheimer's Disease and their caregivers. Its focus areas include the construction of the self in the face of diminishing linguistic and cognitive abilities, the stigmatization of ageing, the various narrative strategies that these texts (often collaborative) employ, the health activism and advocacy generated via a 'biosociality,' and the ethics of care. It examines the 'disease writing' genre about a condition that ravages the ability to use language. It serves as a "literary" examination of the work done in this area through a critical reading of the memoirs of those with AD and caregivers and a healthy dose of literary theory. The book is a valuable resource for those interested in literary and critical theory and researchers in the field of ageing/dementia studies.

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Springer Nature

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981166112X

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An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This introduction to cybercultures provides a cutting-edge and much needed guide to the rapidly changing world of new media and communication. Considers cyberculture and new media through contemporary race, gender and sexuality studies and postcolonial theory Offers a clear analysis of some of the most complex issues in cybercultures, including identity, network societies, new geographies, and connectivity Includes discussions of gaming, social networking, geography, net-democracy, aesthetics, popular internet culture, the body, sexuality and politics Examines key questions in the political economy, racialization, gendering and governance of cyberculture

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405181672

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The Great Uprising

India, 1857

By: Pramod Knayar

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The Great Uprising

India, 1857

By: Pramod Knayar

‘The punishment for Mutiny,’ said John Nicholson, Commander of the Movable Column, ‘is death’. As India marks 150 years of the 1857 Uprising, this meticulously researched and vivid work recounts a time both tragic and compelling. Many-staged and many-charactered, this volume searches for the key issues, causes and effects, figures and developments that culminated in the massacres of Cawnpore, Satichaura and Bibighar, the ensuing counter-massacres, and the gory retribution dealt out by the British on their subjects. Beginning with an account of the state of the British Raj in 1857, Pramod Nayar moves on the ‘A Gathering Storm’, the strife that led to the Uprising, ‘The Summer of Discontent’, recounting the Mutiny, ‘The Retreat of the Native’ which tells us how the British won back lost ground, and ‘The Raj Rises Again’, explaining the repercussions the Mutiny had on the administrative plans of the empire. He also delves into the real causes of the Uprising, more complex than what conventional history upholds. Detailed descriptions of the Mutiny’s main figures, including Henry Lawrence, John Nicholson, Lord Canning, Nana Sahib, the Rani of Jhansi, and the tragic king of Delhi, Bahadur Shah Zafar, are interspersed with quotes, facts and anecdotes that reanimate the past. An overview and analysis of the Mutiny is flavoured with references to the literature of the time and includes an appendix on how the events of 1857 influenced European literary imagination. Kanpur and Jhansi, violence and counter-violence, heroism and savagery – this every-person’s guide to 1857 captures the most tumultuous years of British India and re-enacts the drama of the first stirrings of nationalism.

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Penguin UK

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9352141539

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9789352141531

Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Postcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. The term is heavily loaded and has come to mean a wide, and often bewildering, variety of approaches, methods, politics and ideas. Beginning with the historical origins of postcolonial thought in the writings of Gandhi, Cesaire and Fanon, this guide moves on to Edward Said's articulation into a critical approach and finally to postcolonialism's multiple forms in contemporary critical thinking, including theorists such as Bhabha, Spivak, Arif Dirlik and Aijaz Ahmed. Written in jargon-free language and illustrated with examples from literary and cultural texts, this book addresses the many concerns, forms and 'specializations' of postcolonialism, including gender and sexuality studies, the nations and nationalism, space and place, history and politics. It explains the key ideas, concepts and approaches in what is arguably the most influential and politically edged critical approach in literary and cultural theory today

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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144113851X

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9781441138514

Cabling India

Wikileaks and the Information Wars

By: Pramod K Nayar

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Cabling India

Wikileaks and the Information Wars

By: Pramod K Nayar

WikiLeaks represents the world's first 'information war.' This essay examines WikiLeaks as a cultural phenomenon. WikiLeaks constitutes a culture of 'porosity' that contests and overturns the culture - often state-sponsored - of secrecy, a culture of truth-telling, and of hacking. They contribute to the making of witnessing publics which enables the re-making of new public spaces and therefore offer new prospects for democracy.

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D C Books

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8126431881

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The Extreme in Contemporary Culture

States of Vulnerability

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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The Extreme in Contemporary Culture

States of Vulnerability

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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191

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1783483679

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Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs

Poetics of the Forgetting Self

By: Pramod K Nayar

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Poetics of the Forgetting Self

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Springer Nature

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981166112X

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Frantz Fanon

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Frantz Fanon

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This book serves as an introduction to the views of the anticolonial thinker Frantz Fanon and charts his influence on postcolonial studies, literary critism, and cultural studies.

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170

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Routledge

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0415602971

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9780415602976

Posthumanism

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Posthumanism

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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194

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745688551

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9780745688558

Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

By: Pramod K. Nayar

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Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

By: Pramod K. Nayar

The book offers a close examination of the rhetoric and discourses around the Bhopal disaster through a reading of numerous cultural texts--from fiction to protest effigies and posters - and maps the production of an ecological Gothic around the disaster.

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Ecocritical Theory and Practice

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1498540457

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9781498540452

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