Postcoloniality in Transition: Essays on Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Globalization

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The book explores the cataclysmic transitions in the discipline of postcolonial studies. It focuses on how the rise of a distinct and challenging corpus of writing by the Third World Intelligentsia has led to a radical shift in the understanding and conceptualization of postcolonial issues. Notions such as Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Globalization neither obliterate the specificities of the “postcolonial” nor undermine the challenges they pose to postcoloniality. Instead, their interface throws open newer landscapes of postcoloniality which appear to promise a “new world order” with diverse possibilities. The book discusses and deliberates on such new possibilities of postcoloniality in the light of the postcolonial futures, alternative cultural identitities, multiculturalism, hybridity and the like in matters of theorization, and analyses of fictional and non-fictional discourses. N. Rama Devi Murru - Introduction 11 Bill Ashcroft - Postcolonial Futures: Literature, Transformation, Globalization 29 M. S. Pandey - Redefining Identity: Globalization, Cultural Heterogeneity, and the Logics of Multiculturalism 49 Alan Johnson - Globalization, National Epic, and Dialectical Reading 66 Tabish Khair - The Mystery of the Missing Small Town in Current Internationally Visible Indian Fiction in English 88 Pravin K. Patel - Language and Lokation: Colonial Amnesia, Globalization and English Studies in India 95 Shreesha Udupa - Heterotopian Emplacements: Cosmopolitan Claims in Diasporic Literature 110 N. Rama Devi Murru (et al) - Round-Table Discussion on "Re-Positioning the Postcolonial: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics" 127 Ketu H. Katrak - Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Yael Farber’s Molora in Post-Apartheid South Africa 153 Shyam Babu - B rechtian Conceptualization of the “Dual Subject” and Karnad’s Hayavadana: Reflection on Self and Identity 173 Jibu Mathew George - Stories of Adults Told Through Children: The Case of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things 191 Basil N. Darlong Diengdoh - The Transpersonal Nation: Diasporic Narrative in Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap 202 Hariom Singh and Vivek Singh - Imagining the Nation-State: Politicizing History and Historiography in Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege 219 Rashmi Rakheja - Horizons Extended: An Insight into the First Generation Immigrant Woman in The Namesake 229 Chinnadevi Singadi - If Saleem Sinai Had A Facebook Account: Revisiting The Postcolonial Puzzle in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children 236 Sunil Kumar - Women, (Non)State Ideology, and Global Politics in Afghanistan: A Study in Hosseini and Shakib’s Fiction 245 Mousumi Guha Banerjee - Enacting the Post-Colonial: Cinematic Representations of the New Woman in Aparna Sen’s Paromitar Akdin and 15 Park Avenue 268 List of Contributors 277 Index 281