Revolving around India(s) : alternative images, emerging perspectives / edited by Juan Ignacio Oliva-Cruz, Antonia Navarro-Tejero and Jorge Diego Sanchez.
Multiple Indias : retelling traditions, distances and differences / Juan Ignacio Oliva, Antonia Navarro-Tejero, and Jorge Diego Sanchez -- Religious pluralism in Bengal : a historical perspective / Abdul Momin Chowdhury -- The history and political governance of the Reservation Policy in India / Jayshree Singh -- Christianity in early northwest India : a multicultural story often left untold / Simi Malhotra -- Subjugated knowledges, emergent voices : rereading Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in contemporary India / Meenakshi Malhotra -- Retelling experiences : myths from the Mahabharata / S. Asha -- The cultural assimilation of Shakespeare : intertextuality in Kalyan Ray's postcolonial novel Eastwords / Manfred Draudt -- Bollywoodizing BronteĀ : Tamasha's Wuthering Heights / Laura Vinas Valle and Blanca M. Lara Gonzalez -- Forty-five years of diasporic life and writings / Uma Parameswaran -- Other Indias as a third space in Canada's aging anxiety and bodily corruption in Rohinton Mistry's work / Maria Jesus Llarena Ascanio -- Other Indias : Sujata Bhatt reinvents the Stinking Rose / Lucia Garcia Magaldi -- "Other Indians, other clothes" : subversive dress in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia / Noemi Pereira-Ares -- Divided nation : dislocation and relocation / Bandana Chakrabarty -- Perspectives of traveling cultures and traveling technologies in The Hungry Tide / Urmil Talwar -- Mapping Indianness in Mauritius / Felicity Hand -- "Cultural schizophrenia" in some diasporic Indian women writers, and their quest for unity / Luz Gonzalez Rodriguez and Juan Ignacio Oliva -- Re-articulating desire, re-claiming identity : Mahesh Dattani's representation of the third gender / Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri -- Abjection and decoding sexism, nationalism and homophobia in three Anglo-Indian texts / Antonia Navarro-Tejero -- Contesting terror through poetry : Agha Shahid Ali's The Country Without a Post Office / Rosalia Martinez de Miguel -- Indian Muslims in British cinema : identification and denial / Elena Oliete-Aldea -- Deepa Mehta's Earth : the figure of the Indian Muslim as the ambiguous and threatening 'other' / Dolores Herreto -- Resilience and the possibility for change in Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess / Jorge Diego Sanchez.
Summary:
"This book highlights a variety of approaches to the study of contemporary India and offers a transnational, gender and social research perspective on the concepts of Indian tradition, the representation of the Indian diaspora and the emergent political activisms in India. The contributions suggest questions and answers about the various temporal and spatial loci inherent to India and its gender and ethnic differences. The volume analyses different cultural texts, and explores how they refer to equality and interculturality or promote discourses of fear and racism. The multiple viewpoints and analyses found in this volume will broaden and stimulate both upcoming outcomes and studies on the future of India" -- Back cover.
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