Insurgent Imaginations
World Literature and the Periphery
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 25 September 2025
- ISBN 9781108725743
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages242 pages
- Size 229x152x14 mm
- Weight 398 g
- Language English 767
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Short description:
This book illustrates how internationalist writers marginalized the West and placed the non-Western regions in a new center.
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This book argues that contemporary world literature is defined by peripheral internationalism. Over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a range of aesthetic forms beyond the metropolitan West - fiction, memoir, cinema, theater - came to resist cultural nationalism and promote the struggles of subaltern groups. Peripheral internationalism pitted intellectuals and writers not only against the ex-imperial West, but also against their burgeoning national elites. In a sense, these writers marginalized the West and placed the non-Western peripheries in a new center. Through a grounded yet sweeping survey of Bengali, English, and other texts, the book connects India to the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Latin America, and the United States. Chapters focus on Rabindranath Tagore, M. N. Roy, Mrinal Sen, Mahasweta Devi, Arundhati Roy, and Aravind Adiga. Unlike the Anglo-American emphasis on a post-national globalization, Insurgent Imaginations argues for humanism and revolutionary internationalism as the determinate bases of world literature.
'In place of a World Literature that venerates 'a small canon of texts divorced from context,' Insurgent Imaginations stages the powerful theater of 'peripheral internationalism.' With South Asia as focus, it travels through the literary, filmic, theoretical, and non-literary texts of the 'periphery,' to re-evaluate the past by way of a rich historical narrative as well as careful close readings. For this reader, the discussion of Mahasweta Devi was particularly enjoyable.' Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Table of Contents:
Dedication; Epigraph; Acknowledgements; Preface. About this book; 1. Peripheral internationalisms; 2. The memoir and anticolonial internationalism in M. N. Roy; 3. The lumpen aesthetics of Mrinal Sen: cinema novo meets urban fiction; 4. Black blood: fictions of the tribal in Mahasweta Devi and Arundhati Roy; 5. The disappearing rural in new India: Aravind Adiga and the Indian Anglophone novel; 6. Conclusion; 7. Works cited.
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