Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation and Beyond (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

Synopsis

This book is the first of its kind to concentrate significantly on trans-nation and transnationalism, and its dialogue with various nationalisms in South Asia. Transnationalism as a conceptual apparatus has rarely been explored in South Asian academia, despite its prevalence as a research method in the Euro-US domain. Taking this absence/dearth as a crucial juncture as well as a point of intervention, this book intends to push the boundaries further by organizing a dialogue between the nation-state and many nationalisms and the emergent method of transnationalism, going beyond the borders of the Indian state and engaging with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It opens itself up for such cross-border movements, formulating the trans-South Asian discursive exchange necessitated by contemporary theoretical upheavals. It looks at such exchanges through the prism(s) of literature and cinema. The book traces the various modes of engagement that exist between some of the globally dominant literary and cinematic forms, trying to locate these engagements and negotiations across three geopolitical formations and locations of culture, namely region, nation and trans-nation. These three locations work as contact zones where cultural interfaces manifest in various forms.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

280 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000928617

Related ISBNs:

9781032550183, 9781032231693, 9781003428572

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

09/13/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Parichay Patra and Amitendu Bhattacharya

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Parichay Patra

Edited by:

Amitendu Bhattacharya