Memory, nationalism, and narrative in contemporary South Asia

J. Edward Mallot

doi:10.1057/9781137007063

Memory, nationalism, and narrative in contemporary South Asia

J. Edward Mallot

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages	235
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137007063
ISBN (Print)	9781137007056
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137007063
State	Published - Sep 25 2012

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