Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels / / Nadia Butt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Butt, Nadia,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Media and Cultural Memory , 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 p.)

This book places transcultural memory in the South Asian cultural and literary context. Divided into two parts, the book first defines transcultural memory in the age of globalised modernity both as a theory and social practice. Then it examines contemporary Indo-English novels from India and Pakistan with the theoretical and methodological tool of transcultural memory to shed new light on the connection between memory and modernity, and memory and South Asian cultures in the wake of new social and political transformations on the Indian subcontinent. A special focus on commemorative tropes in the novels not only show the possibility of a dialogue with different versions of the past, but also how such a dialogue shapes processes of remembrance between and beyond borders. Hence, the books comes up with alternative ways of reading the Indo-English novels, divesting the concept of (trans)cultural memory from its Euro- centrism and claiming it as equally significant in comprehending the new configurations of memory and modernity in non-Western locations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Rewriting the Past – Memory, History and the Indo-English Novel of the 1980s and 1990s -- Part One -- 2. Memory and Transculturality -- 3. Literature and Transcultural Memory -- Part Two -- 4. Novels of Political Memories: Partition and Reconciliation -- 5. Novels of Private Memories: Through the Looking Glass -- Part Three -- 6. Rerouting and Remapping: The Indo-English Novel of Transcultural Memory after 2000 -- 7. Conclusion: ‘Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories’ -- Bibliography -- Index