Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature - A View from India (Hardcover, New)

The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this book is 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. It 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.