Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia
ISBN: 9781137007063
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan US
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Subjects: Palgrave Literature Collection;

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.

J. EDWARD MALLOT is an Assistant Professor of Anglophone Postcolonial Literature at Arizona State University, USA.

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