Ramu Nagappan

Speaking Havoc

Social Suffering & South Asian Narratives

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Produktbeschreibung

What happens when we speak about violence? Ramu Nagappan joins contemporary discussions of the ethics of representing suffering through an examination of literary and cinematic texts that bear witness to social violence in South Asia. The book focuses on literary works by Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, Saadat Hasan Manto, Salman Rushdie, and the "Spectacular" Bollywood films of director Maniratnam.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 146mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9780295985572
• ISBN-10: 0295985577
• Artikelnr.: 22530108

Autorenporträt

Ramu Nagappan is an instructor and coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies in Medicine and the Humanities in the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Who Owns Suffering?
1. Writing and Redemption
2. The Argument of Fiction
3. Murderous Fictions
4. The Momentary Pleasures of Reconcilation
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index