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Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels

Author
Butt, Nadia, 1977-
Published
[Place of publication not identified] : De Gruyter, 2015.
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1 online resource (216 pages).
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In English.
Contents
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Rewriting the Past -- Memory, History and the Indo-English Novel of the 1980s and 1990s -- 2. Memory and Transculturality -- 3. Literature and Transcultural Memory -- 4. Novels of Political Memories: Partition and Reconciliation -- 5. Novels of Private Memories: Through the Looking Glass -- 6. Rerouting and Remapping: The Indo-English Novel of Transcultural Memory after 2000 -- 7. Conclusion: 'Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories' -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary
This study develops a theory of transcultural memory in relation to the recent phenomena of globalised modernity. It aims to address the connection between memory and culture, and memory and modernity in contemporary Indo-English novels to shed new light on memory cultures in the South Asian context.
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ISBN
3110367351 (ebk)
9783110387117
3110387115
9783110367355 (electronic bk.)
9783110367362
311036736X
3110378191
9783110378191
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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