Insurgent Imaginations - Auritro Majumder

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Résumé :
This book redefines the non-Western roots of world literature. A humanist imagination negotiated the struggles of groups outside the West. A wide range of aesthetic forms resisted nationalism: tracing the notion of peripheral internationalism across a range of cultural forms connecting India, Soviet Union, China, Africa, and the Americas.

Biographie:
Auritro Majumder is Assistant Professor of English at University of Houston. He writes extensively on world literature, critical theory, and intellectual history. He is on the editorial board of Mediations journal and an executive member of the Modern Language Association's South Asia forum.

Sommaire:
Dedication; Epigraph; Acknowledgements; Preface. About this book; 1. Peripheral internationalisms; 2. The memoir and anticolonial internationalism in M. N. Roy; 3. The lumpen aesthetics of Mrinal Sen: cinema novo meets urban fiction; 4. Black blood: fictions of the tribal in Mahasweta Devi and Arundhati Roy; 5. The disappearing rural in new India: Aravind Adiga and the Indian Anglophone novel; 6. Conclusion; 7. Works cited.