Debjani Ganguly

Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity

Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the enigmatic persistence of caste in the lives of South Asians as they step into the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780415544351
• ISBN-10: 0415544351
• Artikelnr.: 26203573

Autorenporträt

Debjani Ganguly is Director, Research Development, at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University. She has published in the areas of postcolonial theory, caste and dalit studies, new literatures in English, and Indian literary criticism.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1. Modernity, Postcolonaiality and the New Humanities: Toward a
non-holistic reading of caste Part 1: Caste and Theoretical Horizons 2. The
Dark Rock of Indian Tradition: Caste and orientalism 3. The Anomalous
Insider: Caste and nationalism 4. An Intractable Dualism: Caste and Marxism
5. On the Other Side of Revenge: Caste and post-orientalism Part 2: Caste,
Life-World, Narrative and the Aesthetic 6. Dalit Mythographies: Ambedkar as
modernity's Interlocutor 7. Buddha, Bhakti and Superstition: A post-secular
reading of dalit conversion 8. Of Urban Dystopias and New Gods: Readings
from Marathi dalit literature 9. Chandra, Velutha, Ammu, Death: The aporia
of the aesthetic Epilogue