Library Catalogue
Rethinking modernity /
Rethinking modernity /
edited by Santosh Gupta, Prafulla C. Kar, Parul Dave Mukherji ; [conference organized by Dept. of English, University of Rajasthan].
- 1st ed.
- Delhi : Pencraft International, 2005.
- 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments
5
Foreword
11
Introduction
13
1
Mourning a Metaphor: The Revolution is Over
Martin Jay
17
2
The Underside of Modernity: Adorno, Heidegger, and Dussel
Fred Dallmayr
22
3
Modernity and Modernism: Society and Literature in 19)h
and 20th
Century India
Madan M. Sarma
42
4 v
Midnight's Orphans, Or A Postcolonialism Worth Its Name
S. Shankar
56
5
Translatability in an Uneven World
R. Radhakrishnan
82
6
Said, Area Studies and Postcoloniality
Gaurav Desai
BIBLIOTKEK | 9 0
OOTTINGBH
7
Homoeroticism and the Construction of Alterity: On Reading A
Passage to India and The Home and the World
Jaspal Kaur Singh
99
8
Refiguring Modernity in the Postcolonial Space: A Reading of
Gender and Nation in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days
Puma Chowdhury
12.0
9
The Discourse of Food and Matrilineages in Contemporary Women's
Writing
Sudha Rai
133
10
Modernity in the Work of Amitav Ghosh
Rajalakshmi N.K.
144
11
Modernity and Third World Women: Flora Nwapa and Buchi
Emecheta
K. Nirupa Rani
152
12
Historical Memory and Religio-Political Interpretations of the
Ghurids in Northern India
Alka Patel
158
13
Gendered Bodies and Cultural Claims: Visuality in Public Culture
Parul Dave Mukherji
168
14
AIDS, Modernity and Public Discourse in India
Dilip K. Das
178
15
The Informatic Sublime: Identity in the Posthuman Age
Pramod K. Nayar
192
16
The Reinstatement of Rationality: Cognitive Science Rethinks
Modernity
Liza Das
208
17
Abraham Lincoln's Identity as a Model for Modernity
William D. Pederson
219
18
Suicide and Suicide Bombings: Issues of Modernity in Nineteenth
Century Sociological Thinking
Mandakini V. Jha
225
19
Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost: A Postcolonial Review of
Modernity
Santosh Gupta
233
20
Modernity Redux: Empire and the End(s) of Postomodernism
Nagesh Rao
239
Contributors
249
Index
250
Papers presented at the conference; chiefly on reflections on modernism in 20th century Indic English literature.
9788185753683
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office 495
2004313121
http://opac.nls.ac.in:8080/intranet-tmpl/prog/img/up.png
Indic literature (English)--History and criticism--20th century--Congresses.
Modernism (Literature)--History and criticism--India--Congresses.
301.01 GUP / F67 2003
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments
5
Foreword
11
Introduction
13
1
Mourning a Metaphor: The Revolution is Over
Martin Jay
17
2
The Underside of Modernity: Adorno, Heidegger, and Dussel
Fred Dallmayr
22
3
Modernity and Modernism: Society and Literature in 19)h
and 20th
Century India
Madan M. Sarma
42
4 v
Midnight's Orphans, Or A Postcolonialism Worth Its Name
S. Shankar
56
5
Translatability in an Uneven World
R. Radhakrishnan
82
6
Said, Area Studies and Postcoloniality
Gaurav Desai
BIBLIOTKEK | 9 0
OOTTINGBH
7
Homoeroticism and the Construction of Alterity: On Reading A
Passage to India and The Home and the World
Jaspal Kaur Singh
99
8
Refiguring Modernity in the Postcolonial Space: A Reading of
Gender and Nation in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days
Puma Chowdhury
12.0
9
The Discourse of Food and Matrilineages in Contemporary Women's
Writing
Sudha Rai
133
10
Modernity in the Work of Amitav Ghosh
Rajalakshmi N.K.
144
11
Modernity and Third World Women: Flora Nwapa and Buchi
Emecheta
K. Nirupa Rani
152
12
Historical Memory and Religio-Political Interpretations of the
Ghurids in Northern India
Alka Patel
158
13
Gendered Bodies and Cultural Claims: Visuality in Public Culture
Parul Dave Mukherji
168
14
AIDS, Modernity and Public Discourse in India
Dilip K. Das
178
15
The Informatic Sublime: Identity in the Posthuman Age
Pramod K. Nayar
192
16
The Reinstatement of Rationality: Cognitive Science Rethinks
Modernity
Liza Das
208
17
Abraham Lincoln's Identity as a Model for Modernity
William D. Pederson
219
18
Suicide and Suicide Bombings: Issues of Modernity in Nineteenth
Century Sociological Thinking
Mandakini V. Jha
225
19
Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost: A Postcolonial Review of
Modernity
Santosh Gupta
233
20
Modernity Redux: Empire and the End(s) of Postomodernism
Nagesh Rao
239
Contributors
249
Index
250
Papers presented at the conference; chiefly on reflections on modernism in 20th century Indic English literature.
9788185753683
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office 495
2004313121
http://opac.nls.ac.in:8080/intranet-tmpl/prog/img/up.png
Indic literature (English)--History and criticism--20th century--Congresses.
Modernism (Literature)--History and criticism--India--Congresses.
301.01 GUP / F67 2003