| Migrant Form: Anti-colonial Aesthetics in Joyce, Rushdie and Ray Contributor(s): Zamora, Maria C. (Other), Majumdar, Gaurav (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433105039 ISBN-13: 9781433105036 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $100.09 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Performing Arts | Film - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| LCCN: 2009039584 |
| Series: Postcolonial Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.95 lbs) 169 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Migrant Form examines the works of James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, and Satyajit Ray for the anti-colonial arguments in their unsettled, and unsettling, aesthetics. Among the questions it engages are the following: What are the aesthetic moves through which art expresses its resistance to dominance and demands for conformity? How can we define anti-colonial aesthetics? How do these aesthetics manifest themselves in different media such as literature and film? Contending that Joyce inaugurates an anti-colonial aesthetics of reconstitution , the book mines such aesthetics in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake to propose a formal model for postcolonialism. It also draws on that exercise to consider how Rushdie extends a play with reconfigured forms into an overt politics in two of his novels (Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses). Turning its attention to film, the book contests the common view of Ray as a gentle realist and examines a formal restlessness in Ray's earlier work, Charulata (The Lonely Wife), before demonstrating how Ray stages his preference for restlessness in his final film, Agantuk (The Stranger). |