Acts of angry writing [electronic resource] :on citizenship and orientalism in postcolonial India / Alessandra Marino.
By: Marino, Alessandra (Research Associate) [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: BookSeries: Series in citizenship studies: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2015] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (vii, 240 pages :) illustrations, map.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780814340585; 081434058X.Subject(s): Women political activists -- India | Women authors, Indic -- Political activity | Social problems in literature | Indic literature -- Political aspects | Pal, Sampat, 1961?- -- Criticism and interpretation | Mahāśvetā Debī, 1926- -- Criticism and interpretation | Roy, Arundhati -- Criticism and interpretationGenre/Form: Electronic books. Online resources: Full text available:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
Mahasweta Devi. Poor, not criminals ; Devi against legal Orientalism -- "How does a law help?" Struggles for citizenship in the forests -- Modernity and modernism : "real" political subjects -- Arundhati Roy. "The cost of dams" : writing collective resistance -- Privatizing the commons, orientalizing adivasis -- Storytelling and the metamorphosis of literature -- Sampat Pal. Warrior in a pink sari : a subaltern autobiography -- Acts of violence or acts of citizenship? -- Between theory and practice. Performing citizenship : resignifying literature -- Acts of angry writing : ethics, subjectivity, and agency.
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