| Description |
1 online resource (271 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures Series |
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Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editors -- Authors -- Introduction -- Part I Nation and Its Porous Frontiers -- 1 The Politics of Spectatorship: Textual Traditions, Cinematograph and the Moral Dilemma of the Natives of Assam in British India (1900-1935) -- Introduction -- Assam in the Nineteenth Century -- Joymoti in the Buranjis -- English Education and the Moral Question -- Assam in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: Education, Novel Writing and Cinema |
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Cinematograph in British India -- Conclusion -- 2 Then and Now: Nation and Transnational Identity in Jyoti Prasad Agarwala's Joymati (1935) and Jahnu Barua's Ajeyo (2014) -- Joymati (Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, 1935) -- Ajeyo (Jahnu Barua, 2014) -- Notes -- References -- 3 Humour and Cinema: A Study of Language Politics in Assam -- Introduction -- Humour and Cinema -- Assamese Cinema: A Brief History -- Linguistic Identity Politics in Assam -- Constructing Hierarchies On-Screen: A Critical Analysis -- Language and Music -- Gendered Reading of Humorous Language -- Contemporary Connections -- Notes |
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5 Cartography of Goa: Analysis of the Tangible Loci of Culture in the Sketches of Mario Miranda -- Configuration of the Bazaar Space -- State-Corporate Nexus and Goa's Tourism Industry -- Packaging Experiences: Selling an 'Authentic' Goa -- Mapping Goa's Cultural Loci -- Goa as a Synergistic Cultural Interface -- References -- Part II Nation, Cultural Histories, Trans-Nation: The Cinematic Imagi-Nation -- 6 That Which Flows -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Notes -- References -- 7 Ray at Large: Cinema In and Out of Literature in Region, Nation, Transnation -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Notes -- References |
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8 Beckett and Avikunthak: Lineages of the Avant-Garde -- Notes -- References -- 9 The Partitioning of Bengal, 1971 and National Identity Formation in Tanvir Mokammel's Films -- Introduction: Rethinking the Consequences of Partition From a Bangladesh Perspective -- Framing Mokammel's Films On Partition and 1971 Theoretically -- Chitra Nodir Pare and Coming and Going -- Shimantorekha -- Partition's Hindu Bengali Victims -- Swapnobhumi -- a Permanently Deferred Promised Land -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Part III Nation, Cultural Histories, Trans-Nation: The Literary Imagi-Nation |
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Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography -- 4 The Transnational City of Pondicherry: Elite Indian Identity Crisis and Cortes' Receding French Image -- Transnational Identity Formation in the Eighteenth Century -- Identity Formation in Modern Colonial Pondicherry: Parker and Goubert -- Sebastian Cortes' Pondicherry: Through the Essays of Kapur, Jafir and Bruckner -- Amin Jafir - The Transnational Past as Heritage -- Pascal Bruckner - Paradox of the Past in the Present -- Sebastian Cortes' Pondicherry: Through a Critical Lens -- The French as Pluri-Cultural Negotiators -- Conclusion -- References |
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10 Region, Nation, Border: Histories of Land and Water |
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Transnationalism in motion pictures -- Congresses
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Motion pictures -- South Asia -- History -- Congresses
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South Asian literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Motion pictures.
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South Asian literature.
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Transnationalism in motion pictures.
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South Asia.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bhattacharya, Amitendu
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| ISBN |
9781000928587 |
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1000928586 |
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