Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia

Mallot, J. Edward

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-09-25

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137007056

DOI: 10.1057/9781137007063

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 235