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Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels

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This interdisciplinary series addresses the relation between media and cultural memory. Its publications study how media construct, store, and disseminate memory. The series' focus is on different ...
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  • 28 August 2015
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This book places transcultural memory in the South Asian cultural and literary context. Divided into two parts, the book first defines transcultural memory in the age of globalised modernity both as a theory and social practice. Then it examines contemporary Indo-English novels from India and Pakistan with the theoretical and methodological tool of transcultural memory to shed new light on the connection between memory and modernity, and memory and South Asian cultures in the wake of new social and political transformations on the Indian subcontinent. A special focus on commemorative tropes in the novels not only show the possibility of a dialogue with different versions of the past, but also how such a dialogue shapes processes of remembrance between and beyond borders. Hence, the books comes up with alternative ways of reading the Indo-English novels, divesting the concept of (trans)cultural memory from its Euro- centrism and claiming it as equally significant in comprehending the new configurations of memory and modernity in non-Western locations.

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Price: $175.99
Pages: 224
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 28 August 2015
ISBN: 9783110378191
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LIT004120 LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LIT004190 LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, POL045000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
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Nadia Butt, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany.