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Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture

✍ Scribed by Navleen Multani;

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Tongue
English
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187
Category
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✦ Synopsis

Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture: Voices of the Marginalized is a compendium of reflections on literary texts, politics of literature and culture. The book proffers ruminations on the pivotal role of constructive and positive resistance to reconstruct identities for meaningful human existence. The disciplinary power and dominance coerce the natural body to resist and yearn for freedom. One can establish a unique identity by refusing to conform to the pressures of society that deform the natural body. Dominant forces and oppressive structures evoke resistance that can range from "polite demurral" to "refusal." Resistance comes from the "will" that refuses to be controlled and governed. The "refusal" of the ordinary illuminates ordinary lives/bodies. Language and literary texts contain essential truths of such human existence. Words and imaginary worlds in literary works reveal the truth and suggest possibilities for reconfiguring the order.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I
1 Jacques Rancière and the “Politics of Literature”
2 Albert Camus’s Concept of Resistance
3 Michel de Certeau and Spatial Practices
Part II
4 Arundhati Roy’s
5 The Branded
6 Resistance in P. Sachidanandan’s
7 Women in Amitav Ghosh’s
8 Indra Sinha’s
Part III
9 Mahasweta Devi’s
10 The Marginalized in
11 Veiled Identities in Azar Nafisi’s
12 Transnational Identities in
13 “Strangenesses and Selves” in Bharati Mukherjee’s
14 Sophocles’
Part IV
15 The Bog Body in Seamus Heaney’s “Punishment”
16 Environmental Imagination and Culture
Bibliography
Index

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