Ways of being free : : authenticity and community in selected works of Rushdie, Ondaatje, and Okri / / Adnan Mahmutović.
Iconic migrant writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Ben Okri use their fictional worlds to articulate the ways in which existential “nervous conditions,” caused by violent postcolonial history, drive individuals to rework the critical notions of freedom, authenticity and community. T...
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| Superior document: | Costerus, new series, 194 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Costerus ;
194 Costerus New Series 194. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- WAYS OF BEING FREE: INTRODUCTION
- CAUSES OF EXISTENTIAL ANGST
- CHANGE AND CHANGELESSNESS IN MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN
- THE ROAD OF EXISTENTIAL STRUGGLE IN THE FAMISHED ROAD
- HISTORY AND THE “NERVOUS CONDITION” IN THE ENGLISH PATIENT
- DEATH AS A DRIVE TO MEANINGFUL EXISTENCE IN MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN
- BECOMING DEAD-TO-THE-WORLD IN THE ENGLISH PATIENT
- IDEOLOGICAL RE-APPROPRIATION THROUGH DEATH IN THE FAMISHED ROAD
- AUTHENTICITY: INTRODUCTION
- FROM SELF-SUFFICIENCY TO INOPERATIVE COMMUNITY IN THE ENGLISH PATIENT
- REVOLUTION REVISITED IN THE FAMISHED ROAD
- FROM COMMUNALISM TO THE COMIC ABSURD IN MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN
- CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.