TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mohanty,Satya P.
TI  - Colonialism, modernity, and literature: a view from India 
T2  - Future of minority studies
SN  - 9780230619043 (hardback)
U1  - 891.4 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Indic literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Colonies in literature
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - India
KW  - In literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; gsg
N2  - "Mohanty has assembled an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of at least three multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial and subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; and the study of "alternative" and "indigenous" modernities. Contributors emphasize the strategies of resistance that are encoded in third world literary texts; comparative literary analysis, across cultures and regions - both within the "Global South" and beyond; the forms of indigenous modernity that preceded the colonial encounter, and thus provide alternatives to the modernity that was imposed through the colonial encounter with Europe; feminist perspectives in traditional and contemporary literature; and "realist" theoretical analyses of the epistemic implications of literary forms. This definitive new work grounds the political insights of postcolonial and subaltern theory in close textual analysis, and rather than make general pronouncements about "alternative modernities," it looks at their specifically textual (literary and cultural) manifestations"--
ER  -