This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao's writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial and diasporic writing in the 20th Century.
This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao's writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial and diasporic writing in the 20th Century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rumina Sethi, Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Panjab University, Chandigarh, is a member of the General Council of the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. She obtained her PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge, and held the British Academy Fellowship at the University of Oxford. Her books include Myths of the Nation (1999) and The Politics of Postcolonialism (2011). Letizia Alterno, Teaching Fellow of Advance HE, is Honorary Research Fellow in Postcolonial Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She has authored the monograph Raja Rao: An Introduction for the Contemporary Indian Writers Series (2011), Rao's obituary in The Guardian (2006) and an article on his legacy in The Times of India (2010).
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Introduction Part I: Re-routing Raja Rao's Politics, National Identity and Postcolonial Criticism 1. The Lure of Monarchy in the Pursuit of Truth: Raja Rao's Royalism in The Serpent and the Rope 2. From National to Metaphysical: Raja Rao's Idea of India in a Transnational Era 3. Resisting the British Empire: Raja Rao's Two Political Anthologies Changing India and Whither India? 4. Threads of Identity: Caste, Clothing and Community in Raja Rao's Kanthapura 5. The Cat and Shakespeare, the Problem of the Ego-Self, and the Vagaries of Literary Reputation Part II: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and the Novel 6. Comrade Kirillov: 'A New Novel' Newly Understood 7. Women and the Narrative of Nationalism in Raja Rao's The Cow of the Barricades 8. Posthumanism in Raja Rao's The Cat and Shakespeare: Redrawing the Boundaries 9. The Cat and the Chessmaster: Deconstructing 'Play' in Two Novels by Raja Rao 10. The Unknown Quantity: Mathematics and Metaphysics in Raja Rao's The Chessmaster and His Moves Part III: Multicultural Politics, Habitat and Translation 11. 'I Am Not Gandhi': Kanthapura and the Problem of Allegory 12. Nature and Landscape: An Evolutionary Psychological Analysis of Raja Rao's Writing 13. Search in Confusion: Reading Transnational Friendships in Raja Rao's Kanthapura and Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi 14. On Translating Raja Rao in the Transnational Era Part IV: Reminiscences Raja Rao at his Bed Table. Raja Rao: The Untold Story. Poem (for Raja Rao): Krishna. Afterword.
Introduction Part I: Re-routing Raja Rao's Politics, National Identity and Postcolonial Criticism 1. The Lure of Monarchy in the Pursuit of Truth: Raja Rao's Royalism in The Serpent and the Rope 2. From National to Metaphysical: Raja Rao's Idea of India in a Transnational Era 3. Resisting the British Empire: Raja Rao's Two Political Anthologies Changing India and Whither India? 4. Threads of Identity: Caste, Clothing and Community in Raja Rao's Kanthapura 5. The Cat and Shakespeare, the Problem of the Ego-Self, and the Vagaries of Literary Reputation Part II: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and the Novel 6. Comrade Kirillov: 'A New Novel' Newly Understood 7. Women and the Narrative of Nationalism in Raja Rao's The Cow of the Barricades 8. Posthumanism in Raja Rao's The Cat and Shakespeare: Redrawing the Boundaries 9. The Cat and the Chessmaster: Deconstructing 'Play' in Two Novels by Raja Rao 10. The Unknown Quantity: Mathematics and Metaphysics in Raja Rao's The Chessmaster and His Moves Part III: Multicultural Politics, Habitat and Translation 11. 'I Am Not Gandhi': Kanthapura and the Problem of Allegory 12. Nature and Landscape: An Evolutionary Psychological Analysis of Raja Rao's Writing 13. Search in Confusion: Reading Transnational Friendships in Raja Rao's Kanthapura and Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi 14. On Translating Raja Rao in the Transnational Era Part IV: Reminiscences Raja Rao at his Bed Table. Raja Rao: The Untold Story. Poem (for Raja Rao): Krishna. Afterword.
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