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Contesting Postcolonialisms

 
Jasbir Jain (Editor) Veena Singh (Editor)
Synopsis Contesting Postcolonialisms is a collection of essays which address the complexity of the term and its myriad meanings. They seek to define, analyse, critique and contest its meanings, its history and implications. In the process of doing so, they are compelled to confront the plurality of its origins and the essential fluidity of the term. It is not possible to draw a linear graph of the development of postcolonialism because of the complexity of the concept. The identifiable political markers are not enough; there are other less visible ones which relate to the production of knowledge and attitudes of mind. Postcolonialism has affiliations with serial disciplines. Looks upon both as an emancipatory strategy and a confining one, postcolonialism ahs both its negative and affirmative aspects. Of the twenty-five essays in this collection, seven are exclusively on theory and theoretical positions and critique the works of maor postcolonial theorists like M.K. Gandhi, Edward Said, Ashis Nandy, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Aijaz Ahmad. They debate the issues presenting counterpoints to each other. Of the rest, four are o poetry, two each on drama and non-fiction and the rest on fiction, focusing on writers like Raja Rao, P. Parthasarthy, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, V.S. Naipaul, salman Rushdie, Arun Kolatkar among others. One essay looks at imperial postcolonialism and two others move beyond postcolonialism. Identifying major postcolonial texts like Kanthapura, Thinks Fall apart and Midnights Children, the writers go on to explore the different conflictual levels and the strategies employed to resist hegemonic structures and to retrieve lost inheritances, sweeping away the residual elements of postcolonial literatures.
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About the authors

Jasbir Jain

Jasbir Jain, writer and critic, Emeritus Fellow, university of Rajasthan, has worked extensively on the Indian novel. Amongst her recent publications are Women in Patriarchy and gendered realities, Human Spaces: The present work is third in a series of writings on the Indian novel and covers the post-independence period. Currently, she is working on the indigenous roots of feminism.

Veena Singh

Veena Singh, Professor at the University of Rajasthan, is interested in feminist studies. She has worked on nineteenth century women writers and has published on castes and ideology. She has also edited a volume Literature and Ideology. Presently, she is working on the Literature of the partition.

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Bibliographic information

Title Contesting Postcolonialisms
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.2004
Edition 2nd ed.
Publisher Rawat Publications
Language: English
isbn 8170338670
length 324p., References; Index; 23cm.
Subjects History