| Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture Contributor(s): Robinson, Francis (Editor), Chaudhuri, Amit (Author) |
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ISBN: 1906165017 ISBN-13: 9781906165017 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $27.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| Series: Past in the Present |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.77" W x 8.42" (1.17 lbs) 332 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Ethnic Orientation - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the essays assembled in Clearing a Space, Chaudhuri draws on his own experiences to offer an acute exploration of what it means to be a modern Indian in relation to history. Often beginning with the personal, he inquires 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. With the same elegance and intelligence for which he has become known, Chaudhuri writes in these essays about Indian popular culture and high culture, travel and location in Paris, Bombay, Dublin, Calcutta and New York, empire and nationalism, Indian and Western cinema, the place of the everyday in Indian creativity, music, art and literature, politics, race, cosmopolitanism, urban landscapes, Hollywood and Bollywood, Anglophone India, internationalism, globalisation, the Indian English tradition that predates Rushdie, post-colonialism and much more. |