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Mapping the Postcolonial Domestic in the Works of Vargas Llosa and Mukundan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Mapping the Postcolonial Domestic in the Works of Vargas Llosa and Mukundan

This book is among the first works to engage with postcolonialism through the lens of the domestic in its totality, encompassing multifarious aspects such as domestic space, objects, family and servitude among others. The study foregrounds the inadequacy of Western theories on the domestic in explaining the postcolonial situation, and proposes alternate methods of analysing the ‘inner’ realm of colonial experience. Structured within the framework of comparative literary studies, the work serves to contribute to the tri-continental model of comparative literature, establishing mutually illuminating connections between the continents. The study provides scope for a widening of the epistemological base of critical inquiry, especially in the domains of postcolonialism, area studies and comparative literature. It explores new avenues in cross-cultural studies, contributing to the transnational diffusion of cultures and literatures, by focusing on what has been termed ‘minor’—the domestic and its rhythms in postcolonial cultures.

Reconceptualising Material Culture in the Tricontinent
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Reconceptualising Material Culture in the Tricontinent

This edited volume is the first to engage with material culture in the Tricontinent comprising Asia, Africa and Latin America, interrogating how objects help trace an alternate history of these locales. The potential of material culture to redefine postcolonial subjectivities is explored here through an analysis of various objects, both tangible and intangible. The book serves to subvert Eurocentric formulations of material culture and arrives at a uniquely Tricontinental model of material culture studies. The essays gathered here engage with an entire gamut of issues pertaining to the perception and significance of object-oriented ontologies from a multifaceted perspective. The book offers a glimpse into the vast field of material cultural studies through an engagement with various geopolitical locales in Asia, Africa and Latin America, thereby familiarizing the reader with the nuances of non-European material culture(s).

The Post-Truth Era: Literature and Media
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 19

The Post-Truth Era: Literature and Media

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-08-18
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  • Publisher: Authorspress

This edited volume brings together authors across the world to share their ideas, views, contemplations, assessments and theories about disinformation and post-truth in literature and media from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book gives an idea as to how the emerging trend of truth crisis, fake news and manipulated information leads to ideological antagonism, ethical conflicts and geopolitical power struggles in society. It has got revealing chapters that discuss the propensity to inquire into the data that satisfies the overtones of the personal emotions and beliefs that undermines facts and truths. Being an observant set of structured ideas having twenty-seven chapters, the book discusses diverse domains such as conspiracy ideologies, alt-facts of the contemporary era, signs and science of truth, post-truth politics of gender, political advertisements, realism and hyperreality, fifth estate and the third space, posthuman pataphysics, performativity and fiction, media renunciation, identity dynamics, and cultural obliteration.

Writers of Indian Diaspora
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

Writers of Indian Diaspora

This anthology is a voluminous compendium of 37 unique and meticulously crafted chapters, each analysing a separate text by a pioneering Indian diaspora writer, with no repetition of authors or texts. This enhances the analytical depth and diversity of this unique anthology. Within these chapters, a carefully curated and evocative array of diverse themes and concerns addressed by these writers unfolds, offering a comprehensive exploration of the diasporic literary terrain. Assimilation and acculturation in the host country, as well as repatriation in the native country, can be challenging issues for the immigrants who have lived abroad for many years. These chapters attempt to elucidate the ...

Certainty and Ambiguity in Global Mystery Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Certainty and Ambiguity in Global Mystery Fiction

Mystery fiction as a genre renders moral judgments not only about detectives and criminals but also concerning the cultural structures within which these mysteries unfold. In contrast to other volumes which examine morality in crime fiction through the lenses of personal guilt and personal justice, Certainty and Ambiguity in Global Mystery Fiction analyzes the effect of moral imagination on the moral structures implicit in the genre. In recent years, public awareness has attended to the relationship between social structures and justice, and this collection centers on how personal ethics and social ethics are bound together amidst the shifting moral landscapes of mystery fiction. Contributor...

Supplement to the Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434
Borderlands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Borderlands

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-08
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Boundaries, borderlines, limits on the one hand and rites of passage, contact zones, in-between spaces on the other have attracted renewed interest in a broad variety of cultural discourses after a long period of decenterings and delimitations in numerous fields of social, psychological, and intellectual life. Anthropological dimensions of the subject and its multifarious ways of world-making represent the central challenge among the concerns of the humanities. The role of literature and the arts in the formation of cultural and personal identities, theoretical and political approaches to the relation between self and other, the familiar and the foreign, have become key issues in literary an...

PreSense Speaks on Communication, Journalism and Perception Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

PreSense Speaks on Communication, Journalism and Perception Management

This is a Digest of articles published in the eMagazine PreSense over a period of 10 years. In this book, more than 165 articles are presented. They cover the various aspects of communication tools, internet and social media communication, media management, drafting of press releases, perceptiuon management, image audit, brand management, crisis communication, etc.

Modern Societal Impacts of the Model Minority Stereotype
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

Modern Societal Impacts of the Model Minority Stereotype

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-01-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The model minority stereotype is a form of racism that targets Asians and Asian-Americans, portraying this group as consistently hard-working and academically successful. Rooted in media portrayal and reinforcement, the model minority stereotype has tremendous social, ethical, and psychological implications. Modern Societal Impacts of the Model Minority Stereotype highlights current research on the implications of the model minority stereotype on American culture and society in general as well as Asian and Asian-American populations. An in-depth analysis of current social issues, media influence, popular culture, identity formation, and contemporary racism in American society makes this title an essential resource for researchers, educational administrators, professionals, and upper-level students in various disciplines.

Human's Cries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 98

Human's Cries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-10-15
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  • Publisher: Notion Press

Down the cauldron Throw them all in: Your pains, Your worries, Your fears, Your problems, Mix them all in a pot Add some HUMAN’S CRIES Add some anxiety Throw in some few words And there you go The solution to all your fears and problems; These sheets of paper