A very popular exile: an omnibus comprising the tao of cricket; an ambiguous journey to the city; traditions, tyranny, and utopias

This omnibus consists of: The Tao of Cricket-a commentary on how both South Asia's race towards development and its longing for a lost lifestyle find expression in the game of cricket; An Ambiguous Journey to the City-an account of how true Indian cosmopolitanism cannot be realized without engaging with the myth of the village; Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias-an exploration of how the oppressed subvert Western imperialistic ideas in order to find an alternative system of values. INDICE: Introduction; I. The Tao of Cricket; On Games of Destiny and the Destiny of Games ; Preface; Preface to the OUP Edition ; 1.: Tradition, Transgression and Norms; 2.: The Wistful Camel and the Eye of the Needle; 3.: Victory, Defeat and the Future of the Savage ; Notes ; Index ; II. An Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and Other Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination; Preface ; 1.: The Journey to the Past as a Journey into the Self: The Remembered Village and the Poisoned City; 2.: The City as the Invitation to an Antique Death: Pramathesh Chandra Barua and the Origins of the Terribly Effeminate, Maudlin, Self-destructive Heroes of Indian Cinema; 3.: The Journey to the Village as a Journey to the Centre of the Self: Mrinal Sen's Search fora Radical Cinema; 4.: The Invisible Holocaust and the Journey as an Exodus: The Poisoned Village and the Stranger City; Index ; III. Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness Foreword by Roger Garaudy ; Preface ; 1.: Evaluating Utopias: Considerations for a Dialogue of Cultures and Faiths; 2.: Towards a Third World Utopia; 3.: Reconstructing Childhood: A Critique of the Ideology of Adulthood; 4.: The Traditions of Technology; 5.: Science, Authoritarianism and Culture: On the Scope and Limits of Isolation Outsidethe Clinic; 6.: From Outside the Imperium: Gandhi's Cultural Critique of the West; Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-19-806930-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 540
• Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés