Online Journalism from the Periphery
β Scott A. Eldridge II
π Library
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2017
π Taylor & Francis
π English
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Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries
β Scribed by Sumana Roy
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 352
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
From the acclaimed author of How I Became a Tree, an enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world
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βA striking mix of memoir and literary analysis. . . . Wise and whimsical.ββTunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal
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Who is a provincial? In this subversive book, Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmakers, cricketers, tourist guides, English teachers, lovers and letter writers, private tutors and secret-keepers whose lives and work provide varied answers to that question. Combining memoir with the literary, sensory, and emotional history of an ignored people, she challenges the metropolitanβs dominance to reclaim the joyous dignity of provincial life, its tics and taunts, enthusiasms and tragicomedies.
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In a wide-ranging series of βpostcardsβ from the peripheries of India, Europe, America, and the Middle East, Roy brings us deep into the imaginative world of those who have carried their provinciality like a birthmark. Ranging from Rabindranath Tagore to William Shakespeare, John Clare to the Bhakti poets, T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee, V. S. Naipaul to the BrontΓ«s, and Kishore Kumar to Annie Ernaux, she celebrates the provincialsβ humor and hilarity, playfulness and irony, belatedness and instinct for carefree accidents and freedom. Her unprecedented account of provincial life offers an alternative portrait of our modern world.
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