The Politics of Literary Theory and Representation: Writings on Activism and Aesthetics
Singh, Pankaj K. (Ed.)
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Book ID : 18291
ISBN-10 : 81-7304-454-6 / 8173044546
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7304-454-0 / 9788173044540
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2003
Edition :
Language :
222p., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Some of the most celebrated writers and critics examin issues central to the contemporary academic debate: issues of interface between political activism and aesthetic representation, the dominent discource of main stream or center and the subaltern or marginalized voices, narratives of nations in opposition to those of the 'nation', essentialism and universalism v. specificites and diversities, historical and spatial location of the author/reader, the insides view v. the outsider's (ir) revelance of modern literary theory, the need to reexamin Western paradigams and search for alternative models, etc.
