Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia

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Author: J. Edward Mallot ISBN: 9781137007063
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US Publication: September 25, 2012
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: J. Edward Mallot
ISBN: 9781137007063
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication: September 25, 2012
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past.

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This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past.

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