In this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers and movements that have gone before. The book particularly illuminates new ways of thinking about Western and non-Western traditions, prejudices, and preconceptions.
In this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers and movements that have gone before. The book particularly illuminates new ways of thinking about Western and non-Western traditions, prejudices, and preconceptions.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven novels, the latest of which is Friend of My Youth. He is also a critic and a musician and composer. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Awards for his fiction include the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Indian government's Sahitya Akademi Award. In 2013, he was awarded the first Infosys Prize in the Humanities for outstanding contribution to literary studies. He is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * The Origins of Dislike * The Piazza and the Car Park * Poetry as Polemic * Deprofessionalisation and Legitimacy * The Other Green * On the Gita: Krishna as Poetic Language * The Alien Face of Cosmopolitanism: An Indian Reading of Cynthia Ozick on the Woolfs * Qatrina and the Books: Nadeem Aslam and others * Ray and Ghatak and Other Filmmaking Pairs: The structure of Asian modernity * The Photographer as Onlooker * The Sideways Movement * Unconstitutional Spaces * Un-machinelike * Nissim Ezekiel: Poet of a Minor Literature * The Emergence of the Everyday: Kipling, Tagore and Indian Regional Writing * Possible, not Alternative, Histories * Starting From Scratch: Buddhadeva Bose and the English Language * On the Paragraph * 'I am Ramu'
* Introduction * The Origins of Dislike * The Piazza and the Car Park * Poetry as Polemic * Deprofessionalisation and Legitimacy * The Other Green * On the Gita: Krishna as Poetic Language * The Alien Face of Cosmopolitanism: An Indian Reading of Cynthia Ozick on the Woolfs * Qatrina and the Books: Nadeem Aslam and others * Ray and Ghatak and Other Filmmaking Pairs: The structure of Asian modernity * The Photographer as Onlooker * The Sideways Movement * Unconstitutional Spaces * Un-machinelike * Nissim Ezekiel: Poet of a Minor Literature * The Emergence of the Everyday: Kipling, Tagore and Indian Regional Writing * Possible, not Alternative, Histories * Starting From Scratch: Buddhadeva Bose and the English Language * On the Paragraph * 'I am Ramu'
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