2008, ISBN: 8178242370

[PU: Black Kite], CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Hardcover ~ Condition: NEW ~ To the many admirers of his fiction, Amit Chaudhuri seems all the more remarkable because of the excellence and a… Mehr…

[PU: Black Kite], CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Hardcover ~ Condition: NEW ~ To the many admirers of his fiction, Amit Chaudhuri seems all the more remarkable because of the excellence and accessibility of his non-fiction. Clearing a Space brings together many of ChaudhuriÆs best essays, written over the past decade in journals such as the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. This body of his work has been widely praised and reveals a literary project of great value in understanding India and global modernity.Often beginning with the personal, Chaudhuri enquires into the nature of the secular in India, into the history of such categories as the West, the foreign, the global, and the exotic, and into the frequently torn and self-divided nature of modern Indian identity. Indian popular culture and high culture, travel and location in Paris, Bombai, Dublin, Calcutta, and New York, empire and nationalism, music, Hollywood and Bollywood, and the place of the everyday in creativity are some of the subjects fascinatingly written about in this book.Chaudhuri also makes a powerful case for thinking about Indian literature and culture in a way that departs strikingly from the parameters created since the publication of MidnightÆs Children and the consolidation of postcolonial studies. While his mode is broadly oppositional, it is also one of constant engagement with the positions he is arguing against.This book will consolidate Amit ChaudhuriÆs already considerable reputation as a writer who communicates with large audiences because of the elegance of his prose and the persuasiveness of his ideas.330 pages ~ Isbn: 8178242370 ~ language: English ~ Year: 2008 ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction: On Clearing a SpacePART ONETowards a Poetics of the India ModernPoles of RecoveryIn the Waiting-Room of History: On Provincialzing EuropeThe Flute of Modernity: Tagore and the Middle ClassThe East as a Career: On æStrangenessÆ in India WritingArgufying: On Amartya Sen and the Deferral of an Indian ModernityThis is Not Music: The Emergence of the Domain of æCultureÆæHuge Baggy MonsterÆ: Mimetic Theories of the Indian Novel after RushdieTwo Giant Brothers: TagoreÆs Revisionist æOrientÆTravels in the Subculture of ModernityThoughts in a Temple: Hinduism in the Free MarketOn the Nature of Indian Gothic: The Imagination of Ashis NandyæHollywood aur BollywoodÆThe View from Malabar HillStories of DomicileNotes on the Novel after GlobalizationAnti-FusionPART TWOAlternative Traditions, Alternative ReadingsArun Kolatkar and Tradition of LoiteringLearning to Write: V.S. Naipaul, Vernacular ArtistA Bottle of Ink, a Pen and a Blotter: On R.K.NarayanæA Feather! A Very Feather upon the Face!Æ: On Kipling Returning to Earth: The Poetry of Jibanananda Das Women in Love as Post-Human EssayChampion of Hide and Seek: Raj Kamal JhaÆs Surrealism Midnight at Marble Arch: On the Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidBeyond æConfidenceÆ: Rushdie and the Creation Myth of India English WritingNotesIndex Non-Fiction/Essays<

2008, ISBN: 8178242370

[PU: Black Kite], CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Hardcover ~ Condition: NEW ~ To the many admirers of his fiction, Amit Chaudhuri seems all the more remarkable because of the excellence and a… Mehr…

[PU: Black Kite], CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Hardcover ~ Condition: NEW ~ To the many admirers of his fiction, Amit Chaudhuri seems all the more remarkable because of the excellence and accessibility of his non-fiction. Clearing a Space brings together many of ChaudhuriÆs best essays, written over the past decade in journals such as the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. This body of his work has been widely praised and reveals a literary project of great value in understanding India and global modernity.Often beginning with the personal, Chaudhuri enquires into the nature of the secular in India, into the history of such categories as the West, the foreign, the global, and the exotic, and into the frequently torn and self-divided nature of modern Indian identity. Indian popular culture and high culture, travel and location in Paris, Bombai, Dublin, Calcutta, and New York, empire and nationalism, music, Hollywood and Bollywood, and the place of the everyday in creativity are some of the subjects fascinatingly written about in this book.Chaudhuri also makes a powerful case for thinking about Indian literature and culture in a way that departs strikingly from the parameters created since the publication of MidnightÆs Children and the consolidation of postcolonial studies. While his mode is broadly oppositional, it is also one of constant engagement with the positions he is arguing against.This book will consolidate Amit ChaudhuriÆs already considerable reputation as a writer who communicates with large audiences because of the elegance of his prose and the persuasiveness of his ideas.330 pages ~ Isbn: 8178242370 ~ language: English ~ Year: 2008 ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction: On Clearing a SpacePART ONETowards a Poetics of the India ModernPoles of RecoveryIn the Waiting-Room of History: On Provincialzing EuropeThe Flute of Modernity: Tagore and the Middle ClassThe East as a Career: On æStrangenessÆ in India WritingArgufying: On Amartya Sen and the Deferral of an Indian ModernityThis is Not Music: The Emergence of the Domain of æCultureÆæHuge Baggy MonsterÆ: Mimetic Theories of the Indian Novel after RushdieTwo Giant Brothers: TagoreÆs Revisionist æOrientÆTravels in the Subculture of ModernityThoughts in a Temple: Hinduism in the Free MarketOn the Nature of Indian Gothic: The Imagination of Ashis NandyæHollywood aur BollywoodÆThe View from Malabar HillStories of DomicileNotes on the Novel after GlobalizationAnti-FusionPART TWOAlternative Traditions, Alternative ReadingsArun Kolatkar and Tradition of LoiteringLearning to Write: V.S. Naipaul, Vernacular ArtistA Bottle of Ink, a Pen and a Blotter: On R.K.NarayanæA Feather! A Very Feather upon the Face!Æ: On Kipling Returning to Earth: The Poetry of Jibanananda Das Women in Love as Post-Human EssayChampion of Hide and Seek: Raj Kamal JhaÆs Surrealism Midnight at Marble Arch: On the Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidBeyond æConfidenceÆ: Rushdie and the Creation Myth of India English WritingNotesIndex Non-Fiction/Essays<

2008, ISBN: 8178242370

[PU: Black Kite], CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Hardcover ~ Condition: NEW ~ To the many admirers of his fiction, Amit Chaudhuri seems all the more remarkable because of the excellence and a… Mehr…

[PU: Black Kite], CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Hardcover ~ Condition: NEW ~ To the many admirers of his fiction, Amit Chaudhuri seems all the more remarkable because of the excellence and accessibility of his non-fiction. Clearing a Space brings together many of ChaudhuriÆs best essays, written over the past decade in journals such as the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. This body of his work has been widely praised and reveals a literary project of great value in understanding India and global modernity.Often beginning with the personal, Chaudhuri enquires into the nature of the secular in India, into the history of such categories as the West, the foreign, the global, and the exotic, and into the frequently torn and self-divided nature of modern Indian identity. Indian popular culture and high culture, travel and location in Paris, Bombai, Dublin, Calcutta, and New York, empire and nationalism, music, Hollywood and Bollywood, and the place of the everyday in creativity are some of the subjects fascinatingly written about in this book.Chaudhuri also makes a powerful case for thinking about Indian literature and culture in a way that departs strikingly from the parameters created since the publication of MidnightÆs Children and the consolidation of postcolonial studies. While his mode is broadly oppositional, it is also one of constant engagement with the positions he is arguing against.This book will consolidate Amit ChaudhuriÆs already considerable reputation as a writer who communicates with large audiences because of the elegance of his prose and the persuasiveness of his ideas.330 pages ~ Isbn: 8178242370 ~ language: English ~ Year: 2008 ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction: On Clearing a SpacePART ONETowards a Poetics of the India ModernPoles of RecoveryIn the Waiting-Room of History: On Provincialzing EuropeThe Flute of Modernity: Tagore and the Middle ClassThe East as a Career: On æStrangenessÆ in India WritingArgufying: On Amartya Sen and the Deferral of an Indian ModernityThis is Not Music: The Emergence of the Domain of æCultureÆæHuge Baggy MonsterÆ: Mimetic Theories of the Indian Novel after RushdieTwo Giant Brothers: TagoreÆs Revisionist æOrientÆTravels in the Subculture of ModernityThoughts in a Temple: Hinduism in the Free MarketOn the Nature of Indian Gothic: The Imagination of Ashis NandyæHollywood aur BollywoodÆThe View from Malabar HillStories of DomicileNotes on the Novel after GlobalizationAnti-FusionPART TWOAlternative Traditions, Alternative ReadingsArun Kolatkar and Tradition of LoiteringLearning to Write: V.S. Naipaul, Vernacular ArtistA Bottle of Ink, a Pen and a Blotter: On R.K.NarayanæA Feather! A Very Feather upon the Face!Æ: On Kipling Returning to Earth: The Poetry of Jibanananda Das Women in Love as Post-Human EssayChampion of Hide and Seek: Raj Kamal JhaÆs Surrealism Midnight at Marble Arch: On the Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidBeyond æConfidenceÆ: Rushdie and the Creation Myth of India English WritingNotesIndex Non-Fiction/Essays<