The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of ‘alternative’ and ‘indigenous’ modernities
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Introduction: Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature: Introducing the Issues; S.P.Mohanty PART I: VIEWS FROM BELOW: COMPARING LITERARY PERSPECTIVES * Critical Realisms in the Global South: Narrative Transculturation in Senapati’s Six Acres and a Third and García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude ; J.H.Vargas Views from Above and Below: George Eliot and Fakir Mohan Senapati; P.L.Sawyer Two Classic Tales of Village India: Investigating the Realist Epistemology in Chha Mana Atha Guntha and Godaan; H.S.Mohapatra Girls for Sale and Six Acres: The Shared World of Gurajada Apparao and Fakir Mohan Senapati; V.N.Rao The Emergence of the Modern Subject in Oriya and Assamese Literatures: Fakir Mohan Senapati and Hemchandra Barua; T.Misra ‘Why Don’t You Speak?’: The Narrative Politics of Silence in Three South Asian Novels; U.Anjaria PART II: THE MANY CONTEXTS OF SIX ACRES AND A THIRD Gender and the Representation of Women in Six Acres and a Third; C.Horan Rediscovering Ramachandra Mangaraj. Chha Mana Atha Guntha: A Critique of Colonial Rule; G.N.Dash Tradition-Modernity Dialectic in Six Acres and a Third; D.K.Dash & D.R.Pattanaik Appendix: Hemchandra Barua’s Classic Text Bahire Rongsong Bhitare Kowabhaturi (Fair Outside and Foul Within) – Translated from the Assamese by Tilottoma Misra
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SATYA MOHANTY Professor of English and Minority Studies, Cornell University, USA.
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