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This chapter addresses the influence of Pop art on Mukherjee’s style and overall endeavor: to “merge the metaphoric with the literal”, i.e. art with concrete reality, including politics.
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Tilman Osterwold: Pop Art. Köln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag 1989, 71.
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Lawrence Alloway: American Pop Art: An exhibition organized for and shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, April 6–June 16, 1974. New York, London: Collier Macmillan, 1974, 4.
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Ibid., 36.
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Bharati Mukherjee: The Holder of the World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1993, 211. All subsequent quotes appear parenthetically in the text as HW, p.
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Edith Tömöry: Mughal Painting. In: A History of Fine Arts in India and the West. Bombay, Calcutty, Madras et al.: Orient Longman, 1982, 255.
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Bottici (2014).
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Bharati Mukherjee: The Tiger’s Daughter. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1992. All quotations from this novel are from this edition and abbreviated as TD, p.
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Sabrina Small: What’s Eating Andy Warhol? Food and identity in Pop art. In: Appetite, Volume 47, Issue 3, Wiley & Sons, November 2006, 400.
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Tilman Osterwold: Pop Art, loc cit., 145 ff.
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Bharati Mukherjee: Fighting for the Rebound (FftR, p.). In: The Middleman and Other Stories. London: Virago 1990, 80. This short story collection is quoted as M, p.
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Bharati Mukherjee: Buried lives (BL, p.). In: In: The Middleman and Other Stories, loc cit.
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Mukherjee (1991, 236). The novel is quoted as J, p.
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Mukherjee (1992, 64). Further quotes from this novel appear parenthetically as W, p.
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Jackson Pollock, quoted in: The Triumph of Abstract Expressionism. In: Art of Our Century: The Chronicle of Western Art. 1900 to the Present, ed. Jean-Louis Ferrier, transl. Walter D. Glanze. New York, London, Toronto et al.: Prentice Hall, 1989, 493.
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Lawrence Alloway, American Pop Art, loc cit., 88.
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Judith Butler: Precarious Life. The Powers of Mourning and Violence. Verso 2006. Cf. Judith Butler: McGill 2013 Honorary Doctorate Address, May 31, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFlGS56iOAg.
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Gilles Deleuze: Difference and Repetition. Columbia University Press: New York 1995.
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Lawrence Alloway, loc cit., 80.
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Bharati Mukherjee: Visitors. In: Darkness, New York: Fawcett Crest, 1992, 143–144. Further quotes from this novel appear parenthetically as V, p.
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Benedikter, R., Hilber, J. (2018). Mukherjee’s 20th Century Source: Pop Art of the 1960s. A Similar Inspiration, 400 Years After the Moghuls?. In: The Art of Multiculturalism. SpringerBriefs in Sociology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89668-7_5
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