دانلود کتاب Frontiers of South Asian Culture

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Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Editors
Authors
Introduction
Part I Nation and Its Porous Frontiers
1 The Politics of Spectatorship: Textual Traditions, Cinematograph and the Moral Dilemma of the Natives of Assam in British India (1900–1935)
Introduction
Assam in the Nineteenth Century
Joymoti in the Buranjis
English Education and the Moral Question
Assam in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: Education, Novel Writing and Cinema
Cinematograph in British India
Conclusion
2 Then and Now: Nation and Transnational Identity in Jyoti Prasad Agarwala’s Joymati (1935) and Jahnu Barua’s Ajeyo (2014)
Joymati (Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, 1935)
Ajeyo (Jahnu Barua, 2014)
Notes
References
3 Humour and Cinema: A Study of Language Politics in Assam
Introduction
Humour and Cinema
Assamese Cinema: A Brief History
Linguistic Identity Politics in Assam
Constructing Hierarchies On-Screen: A Critical Analysis
Language and Music
Gendered Reading of Humorous Language
Contemporary Connections
Notes
Bibliography
4 The Transnational City of Pondicherry: Elite Indian Identity Crisis and Cortes’ Receding French Image
Transnational Identity Formation in the Eighteenth Century
Identity Formation in Modern Colonial Pondicherry: Parker and Goubert
Sebastian Cortes’ Pondicherry: Through the Essays of Kapur, Jafir and Bruckner
Amin Jafir – The Transnational Past as Heritage
Pascal Bruckner – Paradox of the Past in the Present
Sebastian Cortes’ Pondicherry: Through a Critical Lens
The French as Pluri-Cultural Negotiators
Conclusion
References
5 Cartography of Goa: Analysis of the Tangible Loci of Culture in the Sketches of Mario Miranda
Configuration of the Bazaar Space
State–Corporate Nexus and Goa’s Tourism Industry
Packaging Experiences: Selling an ‘Authentic’ Goa
Mapping Goa’s Cultural Loci
Goa as a Synergistic Cultural Interface
References
Part II Nation, Cultural Histories, Trans-Nation: The Cinematic Imagi-Nation
6 That Which Flows
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3
Notes
References
7 Ray at Large: Cinema In and Out of Literature in Region, Nation, Transnation
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2
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4
Notes
References
8 Beckett and Avikunthak: Lineages of the Avant-Garde
Notes
References
9 The Partitioning of Bengal, 1971 and National Identity Formation in Tanvir Mokammel’s Films
Introduction: Rethinking the Consequences of Partition From a Bangladesh Perspective
Framing Mokammel’s Films On Partition and 1971 Theoretically
Chitra Nodir Pare and Coming and Going
Shimantorekha – Partition’s Hindu Bengali Victims
Swapnobhumi – a Permanently Deferred Promised Land
Conclusion
Note
References
Part III Nation, Cultural Histories, Trans-Nation: The Literary Imagi-Nation
10 Region, Nation, Border: Histories of Land and Water
Note
References
11 Travelling On: Bengali and English Literatures of Transnational Worlding
11.1 Subimal Misra: World Enformed
11.2 Hemendra Kumar Ray: How Does the Untranslated Travel?
11.3 Travelling Further Into the Planet With Lubdhak and Gun Island
Notes
References
12 Capitalist World-Ecology, Food Crisis, and Embodied Aesthetics in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve
Notes
References
13 Modernity On Wheels: Reading Trains as Sites of Encounter and Disaster
The Beginning
The Railway in Indian Literature
Railways After India’s Independence
Notes
Bibliography
14 “The Lights Cut Out Quickly”: Nation, Nationalism and City-Lit During 1980s–1990s
Notes
References
Part IV South Asian Transactions: Between Subcontinental Flow and Transnational Frictions
15 Tagorean Cosmopolitanism and Ceylonic Indigenization Movement
Introduction
Research Methodology
Santiniketan Philosophy
Sunil Santha and Sarachchandra: Biographical Details
Analyses
Obstacles Confronted in the Approach to Cosmopolitism
Repercussions of Non-Acceptance of Cosmopolitism
Conclusion
Bibliography
16 From Villain to Superhero: Reimaginings of Ravana in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Sri Lanka
Introduction
Rewritings and Retellings
Many Ravanas in Sri Lanka
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index