Avishek Ray

The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination (eBook, ePUB)

Resilience, Agency and Representation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the epistemic foundation of the heuristic construct 'vagabond' and the convergence between the politics of itinerancy and that of dissent in the context of South Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000412444
• Artikelnr.: 62001730

Autorenporträt

Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology, Silchar. His research pivots around, broadly speaking, travel and mobility. He is the co-editor of Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (2020). His research appears in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Tourism Culture & Communication, the Journal of Literary Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, the Multicultural Education Review, the Journal of Human Values, among others. He has held research fellowships at the University of Edinburgh, Purdue University Library, the Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, Mahidol University, and Pavia University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Illustrations. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction Part
I: The Rupture(s) in the Non-West 2. Sacralizing the Vagabond: The
Pre-History 3. Colonial Bengal and the Case of Mimicry 4. Insurgent
Vagabond: The Postcolonial Turn Part II: Imag(in)ing the Vagabond: Virulent
Mobility in Post-Colonial Times 5. Demographics and Territoriality 6.
Picturing the Vagrant: Resurrecting from the Abyss of Proscription 7.
Itinerancy as a Critique of Development Part III: Literarizing the
Vagabond: Towards a Radical Theory of Wandering 8. The Politics of
Orientalism and Pitfalls of Scripto-centricism 9. The Chimeral Face of
History: Buddhist Subversion Reconsidered 10. Postcolonial Literature: The
Return of the Repressed 11. Epilogue Index.