In the essays assembled in Clearing a Space, Chaudhuri draws on his own experiences to offer an acute exploration of what it means to be a modern Indian in relation to history. Often beginning with the personal, he inquires into the nature of the secular in India, into the history of such categories as the West, the foreign, the global and the exotic, and into the frequently torn and self-divided nature of modern Indian identity. With the same elegance and intelligence for which he has become known, Chaudhuri writes in these essays about Indian popular culture and high culture, travel and location in Paris, Bombay, Dublin, Calcutta and New York, empire and nationalism, Indian and Western cinema, the place of the everyday in Indian creativity, music, art and literature, politics, race, cosmopolitanism, urban landscapes, Hollywood and Bollywood, Anglophone India, internationalism, globalisation, the Indian English tradition that predates Rushdie, post-colonialism and much more.
| ISBN: | 9781906165062 |
| Publication date: | 26th December 2008 |
| Author: | Amit Chaudhuri |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 332 pages |
| Genres: |
Translation and interpretation Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 2000 Regional / International studies Society and culture: general The arts: general topics |