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Introduction
The Indian Imagination focuses on literary developments in English both in the colonial and postcolonial periods of Indian history. Six divergent writers - Aurobindo Ghose (Sri Aurobindo), Mulk Raj Anand, Balachandra Rajan, Nissim Ezekiel, Anita Desai, and Arun Joshi - represent a consciousness that has emerged from the confrontation between tradition and modernity. The colonial fantasy of British India was finally dissolved in the first half of this century, only to be succeeded by another fantasy, that of the reinstituted sovereign nation-state. This study argues that the two phases of history - like the two phases of Indian writing in English - together represent the sociohistorical process of colonization and decolonization and the affirmation of identity.
Keywords
critical theory culture fashion gender identity imperialism
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61823-1
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2000
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, New York
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-61825-5
- Online ISBN 978-1-349-61823-1
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