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Bombay--London--New York de Amitava Kumar

Bombay--London--New York: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

Autor Amitava Kumar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 sep 2002
First published in 2003.When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confines of Indian traditions. Yet like the wave of exiles that preceded him, he found that once we leave our past, we are defined by it: in the U.S. he is pigeonholed by his appearance and quizzed about saris and arranged marriages. BR>There is no beginning that is a blank page, writes Kumar. Circling the three capitals of the Indian diaspora, Bombay-London-New York captures the contours of the expatriate experience, touching on the themes of abandonment, nostalgia, and exile that have powered some of the most prominent Indian writers today -- Naipaul, Rushdie, Roy, Kureishi, as well as E.M. Forster and Gandhi. BR>With resonant, poetic language and a storyteller's sensibility, Kumar explores the works of these writers through the lens of his own life as an immigrant and writer. As their fiction reveals, the past of the expatriate is mythical,shaped by memory and loss. BR>With tales of life in India and London and meditations on the form Indian fiction gives to the lives of those who read about it, this is a sweeping, passionate search to find one's own story in the stories of others.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415942119
ISBN-10: 041594211X
Pagini: 290
Ilustrații: 5 color images
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Professional Practice & Development

Notă biografică

Amitava Kumar is Associate Professor of English at Penn State and the author of Passport Photos. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Nation, Harper's, and the New Statesman, among others. He is the winner of the Asian Age Award for short fiction.He aslo wrote the script and narrated the prize-wining documentary film Pure Chutney.

Recenzii

"[Kumar's] literary criticism is effortless and illuminating...his analysis of the Indian underclass and social unrest is incisive. When Kumar is personal and honest he is most effective. His observations on Naipaul and Rushdie, in particular, are balanced and insightful. Kumar is clearly capable of great narrative." -- Persimmon
"This intriguing book illuminates both the writers examined and the act of writing as a means of re-creating the past. Highly recommended for literary collections and all large public and academic libraries." -- Library Journal
"...[a] wilful, engaging book on Indian fiction in English, where it is always clear that there is a relationship between literary journeys and those embarked on in real life, between the flow of words and the movement of people and things, and between the reader's act of finding the literary centre and the writer's task of illuminating the periphery." -- Times Literary Supplement
"Bombay-London-New York is a riveting book. Kumar's passion for his subject matter is infectious. But he is doing much more than simply providing illuminating insights into Indian cultural life in the West. He is showing a way forward for cultural criticism, with the critic as an insightful storyteller. It is the wave of the future." -- Independent
"Kumar is a skilled storyteller. He manages to pull the different strands of his narrative - the autobiography, the anxieties of the writer in exile, the evolution of indigenous varieties of Indianness in London and New York - with considerable success. His prose is always elegant, his ideas always pulsate with energy and his humanity shines through every page." -- Independent
"[Bombay-London-New York] is not so much a well-cooked biryani, where different ingredients are synthesized into a holistic meal, but more a juicy, multi-layered club sandwich." -- Independent
"This is a work of luminous imagination and tenderness. Amitava Kumar is a startling story teller: that rare cultural critic who writes from and for the heart. When last did any academic so successfully harmonize a love of language with a passion for ideas? This book will surely establish Kumar as one of the most eloquent, searching public intellectuals of his generation. Rob Nixon Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison and author of Dreambirds."
" As a literary critic, memoirist and social historian, Amitava Kumar is a rare and bracing presence in the world of Indian writing in English. He is a connoisseur of texts, always alert to the felicitous phrase and image, but his greater achievement lies in illuminating the individual and collective histories that a young literature emerges from" - Pankaj Mishra."
"[Bombay-London-New York] is not so much a well-cooked biryani, where different ingredients are synthesized into a holistic meal, but more a juicy, multi-layered club sandwich." -- Independent
"As a literary critic, memoirist and social historian, Amitava Kumar is a rare and bracing presence in the world of Indian writing in English. He is a connoisseur of texts, always alert to the felicitous phrase and image, but his greater achievement lies in illuminating the individual and collective histories that a young literature emerges from." -- Pankaj Mishra
"This is a work of luminous imagination and tenderness. Amitava Kumar is a startling story teller: that rare cultural critic who writes from and for the heart. When last did any academic so successfully harmonize a love of language with a passion for ideas? This book will surely establish Kumar as one of the most eloquent, searching public intellectuals of his generation." -- Rob Nixon Rachel Carson, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison and author of Dreambirds.

Cuprins

1: Paper; 2: Going Back; I: Part I; 3: Bombay; 4: In the Light of Small Towns; 5: Writer in the Hinterland; II: Part II; 6: London; 7: Pure Chutney; 8: My Hanif Kureishi Life; III: Part III; 9: New York; 10: Digital City; 11: Traveling Light; 12: Flight; 13: Epilogue