Author: Prafulla C Kar
Santosh Gupta/Parul Dave Mukherji
Editor(s): Santosh Gupta / Parul Dave Mukherji / Prafulla C K
Publisher: Pencraft International
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 254
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185753687
Description
This volume, dedicated to the theme of rethinking modernity of the Jaipur Conference (2003) of the forum on contemporary theory, looks back on the western project of modernity and its transformation through ages from multi-disciplinary perspectives. As an identity-marker of the West, the idea of modernity continues to excite and provoke literary scholars, philosophers, political theorists, social critics and art historians in strangely ambivalent ways.
The volume addresses modernity’s multi-faceted configurations: in literary and visual representations, in political culture and practice; in philosophical reflections; in sociological thinking; and in technological revolution. Its linkage with colonial processes has given it a distinctive character in the third world context. The volume is a timely reflection on this dominant western paradigm, which has influenced thinking all over the world in diverse ways. It provides useful material for research scholars and students of such disciplines as literature, history, philosophy, politics, art history and social thought.
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Mourning a Metaphor: The Revolution is Over
MARTIN JAY
The Underside of Modernity: Adorno, Heidegger, and Dussel
FRED DALLMAYR
Modernity and Modernism: Society and Literature in 19th and 20th Century India
MADAN M SARMA
Midnight’s Orphans, Or a Postcolonialism worth Its Name
S SHANKAR
Translatability in an Uneven World
R RADHAKRISHNAN
Edward Said, Area Studies and Postcoloniality
GAURAV DESAI
Homoeroticism and the Construction of Alterity: On Reading a Passage to India and The Home and the World
JASPAL KAUR SINGH
Refiguring Modernity in the Postcolonial Space: A Reading of Gender and Nation in Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days
PURNA CHOWDHURY
The Discourse of food and Matrilineages in Contemporary women’s Writing
SUDHA RAI
Modernity in the Work of Amitav Ghosh
RAJALAKSHMI N K
Modernity and third World Women: Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta
K NIRUPA RANI
Historical Memory and Religio-Political Interpretations of the Ghurids in Northern India
Gendered Bodies and Cultural claims: Visuality in Public Culture
PARUL DAVE MUKHERJI
AIDS, Modernity and Public Discourse in India
DILIP K DAS
The Informatic Sublime: Identity in the Posthuman Age
PRAMOD K NAYAR
The Reinstaement of Rationality: Cognitive Science Rethinks Modernity
LIZA DAS
Abraham Lincoln’s Identity as a Model for Modernity
WILLIAM D PEDERSON
Suicide and Suicide Bombings: Issues of Modernity in Nineteenth
Century Sociological Thinking
MANDAKINI V JHA
Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s ghost: A Postcolonial Review of Modernity
SANTOSH GUPTA
Modernity Redux: Empire and the End (s) of Postomodernism
NAGESH RAO
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX