The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of 'alternative' and 'indigenous' modernities. INDICE: Introduction: Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature: Introducing the Issues; .S.P.Mohanty .PART I: VIEWS FROM BELOW: COMPARING LITERARY PERSPECTIVES .Critical Realisms in the Global South: Narrative Transculturation in Senapati's .Six Acres and a Third. and García Márquez's .One Hundred Years of Solitude.; .J.H.Vargas .Views from Above and Below: George Eliot and Fakir MohanSenapati; .P.L.Sawyer .Two Classic Tales of Village India: Investigating the Realist Epistemology in Chha Mana Atha Guntha and Godaan; .H.S.Mohapatra .Girls for Sale and Six Acres: The Shared World of Gurajada Apparao and Fakir MohanSenapati; .V.N.Rao .The Emergence of the Modern Subject in Oriya and AssameseLiteratures: Fakir Mohan Senapati and Hemchandra Barua; .T.Misra .'Why Don't You Speak?': The Narrative Politics of Silence in Three South Asian Novels; .U.Anjaria .PART II: THE MANY CONTEXTS OF SIX ACRES AND A THIRD .Gender and the Representation of Women in Six Acres and a Third; .C.Horan .Rediscovering Ramachandra Mangaraj. Chha Mana Atha Guntha: A Critique of Colonial Rule; .G.N.Dash .Tradition-Modernity Dialectic in Six Acres and a Third; .D.K.Dash. & .D.R.Pattanaik .Appendix: Hemchandra Barua's Classic Text Bahire Rongsong Bhitare Kowabhaturi (Fair Outside and Foul Within) - Translated from the Assamese by Tilottoma Misra.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61908-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 270
- Fecha Publicación: 06/07/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido