{"product_id":"24638-clearing-a-space-reflections-on-india-literature-and-culture","title":"Clearing A Space - Reflections on India, Literature and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Amit Chaudhuri\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Black Kite\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2008\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 330\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8178242370\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the many admirers of his fiction, Amit Chaudhuri seems all the more remarkable because of the excellence and accessibility of his non-fiction. Clearing a Space brings together many of Chaudhuri’s best essays, written over the past decade in journals such as the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. This body of his work has been widely praised and reveals a literary project of great value in understanding India and global modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOften beginning with the personal, Chaudhuri enquires into the nature of the secular in India, into the history of such categories as the West, the foreign, the global, and the exotic, and into the frequently torn and self-divided nature of modern Indian identity. Indian popular culture and high culture, travel and location in Paris, Bombai, Dublin, Calcutta, and New York, empire and nationalism, music, Hollywood and Bollywood, and the place of the everyday in creativity are some of the subjects fascinatingly written about in this book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChaudhuri also makes a powerful case for thinking about Indian literature and culture in a way that departs strikingly from the parameters created since the publication of Midnight’s Children and the consolidation of postcolonial studies. While his mode is broadly oppositional, it is also one of constant engagement with the positions he is arguing against.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book will consolidate Amit Chaudhuri’s already considerable reputation as a writer who communicates with large audiences because of the elegance of his prose and the persuasiveness of his ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: On Clearing a Space\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE\u003cbr\u003eTowards a Poetics of the India Modern\u003cbr\u003ePoles of Recovery\u003cbr\u003eIn the Waiting-Room of History: On Provincialzing Europe\u003cbr\u003eThe Flute of Modernity: Tagore and the Middle Class\u003cbr\u003eThe East as a Career: On ‘Strangeness’ in India Writing\u003cbr\u003eArgufying: On Amartya Sen and the Deferral of an Indian Modernity\u003cbr\u003eThis is Not Music: The Emergence of the Domain of ‘Culture’\u003cbr\u003e‘Huge Baggy Monster’: Mimetic Theories of the Indian Novel after Rushdie\u003cbr\u003eTwo Giant Brothers: Tagore’s Revisionist ‘Orient’\u003cbr\u003eTravels in the Subculture of Modernity\u003cbr\u003eThoughts in a Temple: Hinduism in the Free Market\u003cbr\u003eOn the Nature of Indian Gothic: The Imagination of Ashis Nandy\u003cbr\u003e‘Hollywood aur Bollywood’\u003cbr\u003eThe View from Malabar Hill\u003cbr\u003eStories of Domicile\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Novel after Globalization\u003cbr\u003eAnti-Fusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO\u003cbr\u003eAlternative Traditions, Alternative Readings\u003cbr\u003eArun Kolatkar and Tradition of Loitering\u003cbr\u003eLearning to Write: V.S. Naipaul, Vernacular Artist\u003cbr\u003eA Bottle of Ink, a Pen and a Blotter: On R.K.Narayan\u003cbr\u003e‘A Feather! A Very Feather upon the Face!’: On Kipling \u003cbr\u003eReturning to Earth: The Poetry of Jibanananda Das \u003cbr\u003eWomen in Love as Post-Human Essay\u003cbr\u003eChampion of Hide and Seek: Raj Kamal Jha’s Surrealism\u003cbr\u003e Midnight at Marble Arch: On the Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid\u003cbr\u003eBeyond ‘Confidence’: Rushdie and the Creation Myth of India English Writing\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Amit Chaudhuri \/ Black Kite \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40776553005225,"sku":"24638","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/24638_afbfd628-b129-4f00-ba55-9273df5217c1.jpg?v=1625527454","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/products\/24638-clearing-a-space-reflections-on-india-literature-and-culture","provider":"The India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}