Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia

J. Edward Mallot

Palgrave Macmillan US, Sep 25, 2012 - Literary Criticism - 235 pages

This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past.

About the author

J. EDWARD MALLOT is an Assistant Professor of Anglophone Postcolonial Literature at Arizona State University, USA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia
• Author: J. Edward Mallot
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012
• ISBN: 1137007052, 9781137007056
• Length: 235 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative; Literary Criticism / Asian / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century; Literary Criticism / Modern / General; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory; Social Science / General; Social Science / Sociology / General