Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia

J. Edward Mallot

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past.

ISBN-13
9781349435234
ISBN-10
1349435236
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
Publication date
2012-09-25
Pages
235
Dimensions
216x140x