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Meeting the Other - Encountering Oneself

by Sandra Hestermann
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Synopsis

Ausgehend vom Indienbild in der Kolonialliteratur Rudyard Kiplings, analysiert die Studie die Entwicklungen in den postkolonialen Identitäts- und Alteritätsentwürfen indischer Protagonisten in einem umfangreichen Korpus moderner Kurzgeschichten. Unter der Perspektive postkolonialer und 'gender'-Theorien werden betrachtet: Kurzgeschichten der anglo-indischen Autoren Rudyard Kipling und Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, die Kurzgeschichtenzyklen von Vikram Chandra, Love and Longing in Bombay (1997); Rohinton Mistry, Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987); Farrukh Dhondy, Poona Company (1980) sowie u.a. Meher Pestonji, Mixed Marriage and Other Parsi Stories (1999); R. Raj Rao, One Day I locked my Flat in Soul City (2000); Randhir Khare, Return to Mandhata (1991); Manjula Padmanabhan, Hot Death, Cold Soup (1996); Suniti Namjoshi, The Blue Donkey Tales (1988) und Feminist Fables (1994).

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Book Details

Published
January 1, 2003
Publisher
Lang, Peter Publishing, Incorporated
Pages
322
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9783631515136

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