Navleen Multani

Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Voices of the Marginalized

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture elaborates upon the dynamics of identity construction.It highlights ethical non-violent resistance that arouses goodness.The bookexplores man's indefatigable spirit to surpass adversity and presents optimism and hope that can facilitate social amelioration

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000967531
• Artikelnr.: 68796574

Autorenporträt

Navleen Multani is an Associate Professor in English, Head, School of Languages, and Director, Public Relations Cell at Jagat Guru Nanak Dev Punjab State Open University (JGND PSOU), Patiala (India). She is a postgraduate in English from Panjab University, Chandigarh, and holds PhD in English Literature and Language from Punjabi University Patiala (Punjab, India). She is Member of the Research Committee and the Academic Council at JGND PSOU. She is Area Editor with Oxford Online Bibliographies: Literary and Critical Theory. She has edited Essays on Classics (2019). She is Program Coordinator MA English and Certificate Course in Effective Business and Social Communication at JGND PSOU. She specializes in theories of resistance and Indian writings. Research articles on contemporary topics written by her have been published in Sahitya Akademi's Indian Literature. She teaches language, literature, linguistics and communication skills in various degree programs.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface

Acknowledgments







Part I



1. Jacques Rancière and the "Politics of Literature"

2. Albert Camus's Concept of Resistance

3. Michel de Certeau and Spatial Practices

Part II

4. Arundhati Roy's An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire

5. The Branded

6. Resistance in P. Sachidanandan's Govardhan's Travels

7. Women in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

8. Indra Sinha's Animal's People



Part III



9. Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084

10. The Marginalized in Breast Stories

11. Veiled Identities in Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran

12. Transnational Identities in The Namesake

13. "Strangenesses and Selves" in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

14. Sophocles' Antigone



Part IV



15. The Bog Body in Seamus Heaney's "Punishment"

16. Environmental Imagination and Culture

Bibliography

Index