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by Giuseppe de Riso| 2018| 123 pages| 0.48046875| English

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This volume provides a critical reading of Khushwant Singha (TM)s Train to Pakistan (1956), Neel Mukherjeea (TM)s The Lives of Others (2014) and Rohinton Mistrya (TM)s A Fine Balance (1995) to provide a literary account of three fundamental moments in Indiaa (TM)s the Partition of 1947, the Naxalbari movement, and Indira Gandhia (TM)s Emergency. These novels provide literary interpretations of the ways in which feelings of fear and insecurity connected with ethno-religious rivalries, as well as with new power shifts in Indian socio-economic structure, gave a significant contribution to the formation of the political landscape in post-colonial India. More specifically, defying any kind of identitarian juxtaposition (be it related to ethnic belonging, religion, sexuality, or social class), the present work reads those three major novels in Indian English fiction to investigate how episodes of violence, in the first three decades after Indiaa (TM)s independence from the British Empire, were enacted under the influence of cultural images and a oeaffectsa which legitimised different social groups to claim for themselves the right to prevail over others, or even take their lives. The volume starts with a reflection on the spreading of rumours during Partition in Train to Pakistan (1956) and their power to turn friendly communities into sworn enemies. The analysis proceeds then to discuss how the newborn governmenta (TM)s struggle to stifle the Naxalbari movement, as it described in The Lives of Others, was partly sustained by paranoiac feelings projected by the new metropolitan bourgeoisie on the people living in the rural parts of the country. The historical itinerary concludes with an analysis of A Fine Balancea (TM)s description of the two main political objectives of the the a oebeautificationa of India and the reduction of the countrya (TM)s population. Both appear to be revealing moments of a predatory character present in the new Indian democratic institutions, transmitted as a kind of bodily contagion.

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Author:Giuseppe de Riso
Publication Year:2018
ISBN:9781527506053
Pages:123
Language:English
File Size:0.48046875
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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