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03991aam a2200517 i 4500 001 37998466C17411E49647BAD4DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150303010228 008 140507s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014008840 020 $a 1138777366 (hbk) 020 $a 9781138777361 (hbk) 035 $a (OCoLC)879467827 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d CDX $d COO $d CHVBK $d BTCTA $d ERASA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR9570.S64 $b H64 2015 082 00 $a 820.9/954 $2 23 084 $a LIT007000 $a MUS015000 $a LIT007000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Hoene, Christin. 245 10 $a Music and identity in postcolonial British-South Asian literature / $c Christin Hoene. 264 1 $a New York : $b Routledge, $c 2015. 300 $a x, 168 pages; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ; $v 32 520 $a "This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag, Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album, and Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with reference to other texts, such as E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and Vikram Seth's An Equal Music. The analyzed novels feature different kinds of music, from Indian classical to non-classical traditions, and from Western classical music to pop music and rock 'n' roll. Music is depicted as a cultural artifact and as a purely aestheticized art form at the same time. As a cultural artifact, music derives meaning from its socio-cultural context of production and serves as a frame of reference to explore postcolonial identities on their own terms. As purely aesthetic art, music escapes its contextual meaning. The transgressive qualities of music render it capable of expressing identities irrespective of origin and politics of location. Thereby, music in the novels marks a very productive space to imagine the postcolonial nation and to rewrite imperial history, to express the cultural hybridity of characters in-between nations, to analyze the state of the nation and life in the multicultural diaspora of contemporary Great Britain, and to explore the ramifications of cultural globalization versus cultural imperialism. It will be a useful research and teaching tool for those interested in postcolonial literature, music studies, cultural studies, contemporary literature and South-Asian literature"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a South Asian fiction (English) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Music in literature. 650 0 $a Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism in literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a MUSIC / Ethnomusicology. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00966891 650 7 $a Music in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030552 650 7 $a Postcolonialism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01073035 650 7 $a South Asian fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01762737 650 7 $a Musik. $0 (DE-588)4040802-4 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Postkoloniale Literatur. $0 (DE-588)4428936-4 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Englisch. $0 (DE-588)4014777-0 $2 gnd 651 7 $a SuÌdasien. $0 (DE-588)4058406-9 $2 gnd 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; $v 32. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017014834.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826100657.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=37998466C17411E49647BAD4DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search