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Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia - Paperback

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Author:: J. Edward Mallot
Publisher:: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date:: Sep 25, 2012
Number of pages:: 235 pages
Binding:: Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10:: 1349435236
ISBN-13:: 9781349435234

Overview

This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past.