Table Of ContentHeritage and Ruptures
in Indian Literature,
Culture and Cinema
Heritage and Ruptures
in Indian Literature,
Culture and Cinema
Edited by
Cornelius Crowley,
Geetha Ganapathy-Doré
and Michel Naumann
Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema
Edited by Cornelius Crowley, Geetha Ganapathy-Doré
and Michel Naumann
This book first published 2017
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK
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ISBN (10): 1-4438-4930-8
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES ......................................................................................... ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................ xi
INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... xiii
LITERATURE
CHAPTER ONE .............................................................................................. 3
IN THE CITY THEY COME AND GO: DIALOGICAL MODERNISM IN INDIAN
ENGLISH POETRY
DEBASISH LAHIRI
CHAPTER TWO ........................................................................................... 23
THREE GENERATIONS OF MIGRANCY IN KIRAN DESAI’S THEINHERITANCE
OFLOSS: THE FOCUS ON MATERIAL THINGS
CELIA WALLHEAD
CHAPTER THREE ........................................................................................ 39
COMMUNITY RUPTURES: INDIVIDUAL REFASHIONINGS OF POSTCOLONIAL
DIASPORIC LIFE IN HANIF KUREISHI’S SOMETHING TO TELL YOU
MARIA-SABINA DRAGA ALEXANDRU
CHAPTER FOUR .......................................................................................... 53
A SHAMEFUL AND DEADLY LEGACY: RAPE, INCEST AND PARRICIDE
IN ACHMAT DANGOR'S BITTER FRUIT AND SHANI MOOTOO’S CEREUS
BLOOMS AT NIGHT
TINA HARPIN
CHAPTER FIVE ............................................................................................ 79
‘WHO SHALL INHERIT BENGAL?’ A READING OF ANURADHA ROY’S
ANATLAS OF IMPOSSIBLE LONGING
EVELYNE HANQUART-TURNER
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CHAPTER SIX .............................................................................................. 87
TRANSCENDING THE DUAL HERITAGE OF EXILE IN JHUMPA LAHIRI’S
FICTION: THE IMPERIOUS DESIRE FOR A CHOSEN REALM
AHMED MULLA
CHAPTER SEVEN ........................................................................................ 97
FAMILY, GEOGRAPHY, AND IDEOLOGY IN JHUMPA LAHIRI’S THELOWLAND
GEETHA GANAPATHY-DORÉ
CHAPTER EIGHT ....................................................................................... 109
COOPERATION OF OPPOSITES: THE HOME AND THE FOREIGN
IN R. K. NARAYAN’S NOVELS
LUDMILA VOLNÁ
CHAPTER NINE ......................................................................................... 121
THE RUPTURE WITHIN: MANIMEKALAI’S POLEMICS WITH BUDDHISM
R. AZHAGARASAN
CULTURE
CHAPTER TEN .......................................................................................... 143
THE LEGACY OF THE HASTINGS CIRCLE: HERITAGE OR RUPTURE?
MADHU JAIN BENOIT
CHAPTER ELEVEN .................................................................................... 159
SIR SAYYID AHMAD KHAN’S NEW APPROACH TO THE MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN
RELATIONSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF BRITISH INDIA: A RUPTURE WITH OLD
PRACTICES?
BELKACEM BELMEKKI
CHAPTER TWELVE .................................................................................... 169
RUPTURED HISTORY AND THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN MYANMAR
SHRUTI DAS
CINEMA
CHAPTER THIRTEEN ................................................................................. 185
HERITAGE AND RUPTURES: THE HERO’S IDENTITY NEGOTIATIONS
IN THE CINEMATIC ADAPTATIONS OF DEVDAS
JITKA DE PREVAL
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN ................................................................................ 203
HERITAGE OR RUPTURE IN TWO BRITISH ASIAN FILMS: EAST IS EAST
AND WEST IS WEST
CAROLINE TRECH
THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
CHAPTER FIFTEEN .................................................................................... 217
HERITAGE AND RUPTURES: A FINE BALANCE DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN
(AND SOME QUESTIONS AROUND GENDER)
RADA IVEKOVIC
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ....................................................................... 237
ABSTRACTS .............................................................................................. 245
NOTICES BIOGRAPHIQUES DES AUTEURS .................................................. 255
RESUMES DES ARTICLES ........................................................................... 263
INDEX ....................................................................................................... 273
LIST OF FIGURES
1. The Devadasis of Coromandel ............................................................. 145
2. Frontispiece of John Dryden’s play, Aureng-Zebe .............................. 146
3. K.L. Saigal playing Devdas ................................................................. 188
4. Dilip Kumar playing Devdas ............................................................... 189
5. Shah Rukh Khan playing Devdas ........................................................ 189
6. Abhay Deol playing Devdas ................................................................ 190
7. Ella and her children rising against George East is East ..................... 205
8. Sajid in West is West on the way to school with his father George ..... 207
9. Last picture of Sajid back in England in West is West ......................... 213
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