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Rethinking modernity / edited by Santosh Gupta, Prafulla C. Kar, Parul Dave Mukherji ; [conference organized by Dept. of English, University of Rajasthan].

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Delhi : Pencraft International, 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9788185753683
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 301.01 GUP F67 2003
Contents:
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
Summary: Papers presented at the conference; chiefly on reflections on modernism in 20th century Indic English literature.
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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.