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Author : Ruchir Joshi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Last Jet-engine Laugh written by Ruchir Joshi and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel explores generation gap in an Indian family over a century of political and social turmoil in post-colonial India.
Author : Ruchir Joshi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788172234973
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Last Jet-engine Laugh written by Ruchir Joshi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Is The Not-So-Distant Future, And In The Belligerent Wannabe Superpower That Is India, Para, A Tomboyish Fighter Pilot, Flies Sorties Against The Pak-Saudi Alliance. She Has Been Trained To Kill, To Be A Deadly Instrument For The Military Ambitions Of The Ultra-Modern, Ultra-Competitive State. And Yet It Is Less Than A Hundred Years Since Her Smart Sarcastic, Principled Grandparents Met On A Non-Violent Demonstration Against British Rule In Ahmedabad, Falling In Love As They Were Trampled By Mounted Police. Their Only Son Paresh, Grows Up To Drift Through Life, Torn In Different Directions All At Once, Though He Does Produce An Entirely Spirited, Directed Daughter Para. How Did India Get Para From Her Grandparents? And What Happened To The Generation In Between, Of Paresh And His Peers? Moving Between Crowd Scenes And Midair Battles, Between Sexual Farce And Social Embarrassment, Joshi Maps The Arcs Made By These Four Striking Characters, By The Family They Make Up, And By Their Country, Across A Complex And Confused Century. Joshi'S Writing Is Sharp, Loose, Fluent And Varied. The Last Jet-Engine Laugh Is A Novel That Is Jaded And Yet Principled, Ribald And Yet Serious, Vigorous Yet Sensitive. It Feels Authentic, Considered And Moving At All Times. It Marks The Arrival Of A Writer Whose Prose Is Fresh, As Surprising And As Distinctly Original As Any To Come Out Of India In The Last Two Decades.
Author : Ruchir Joshi
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780002570909
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Last Jet Engine Laugh written by Ruchir Joshi and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of a Gujarati family track Indian history back to 1930 and forward into the 21st century. The grandparents are disciples of Gandhi, their only son drifts through life. His daughter is a squadron leader in the Indian Air Force when, in the near future, India is at war.
Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846317088
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War written by Paul Williams and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging across fiction and poetry, critical theory and film, comics and speeches, Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War explores how writers, thinkers, and filmmakers have tackled the question: Are nuclear weapons white? Paul Williams addresses myriad representations of nuclear weapons: the Manhattan Project, the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear tests across the globe, and the anxiety surrounding the superpowers' devastating arsenals. Ultimately, Williams concludes that many texts act as a reminder that the power enjoyed by the white Western world imperils the whole planet.
Download or read book Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nilanjana S. Roy
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143031482
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book A Matter of Taste written by Nilanjana S. Roy and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delectable collection of writing on food and its place in our lives that brings together some of the most significant Indian voices over the last century. From lavish meals, modern diets and cooking lessons that serve as a rite of passage to fake fasts and real ones, fish, feni, and fiery meals that smack of revenge, this book has something to satisfy every palate. Gandhi's guilt-ridden account of his failed flirtation with eating meat starkly complements Ruchir Joshi's toast to the senses as he describes his characters discovering a truly alternative use for some perfectly innocent shrikhand. In unique gastronomic takes on history, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Saadat Hasan Manto ensure that we will never look at chutney, a Tibetan momo or jelly in quite the same way again.
Author : A. Guttman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230606938
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Nation of India in Contemporary Indian Literature written by A. Guttman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates representations of the nation of India as characterized by unity and diversity in the works of six contemporary novelists, linking their work to important political, historical and theoretical writings.
Author : Christoph Senft
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004277005
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Indian Writing in English between Global Fiction and Transmodern Historiography written by Christoph Senft and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a comprehensive overview of Indian writing in English in the 21st century. Through ten exemplary analyses in which canonical authors stand next to less well-known and diasporic ones Christoph Senft provides deep insights into India’s complex literary world and develops an argumentative framework in which narrative texts are interpreted as transmodern re-readings of history, historicity and memory. Reconciling different postmodern and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the interpretation and construction of literature and history, Senft substitutes traditional, Eurocentric and universalistic views on past and present by decolonial and pluralistic practices. He thus helps to better understand the entanglements of colonial politics and cultural production, not only on the subcontinent.
Author : EDITORIAL BOARD
Publisher : V&S Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9352150791
Total Pages : 1342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (521 download)
Download or read book General Studies Paper I written by EDITORIAL BOARD and published by V&S Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed by experienced professionals from reputed civil services coaching institutes and recommended by many aspirants of Civil Services Preliminary exam, General Studies Paper - I contains Precise and Thorough Knowledge of Concepts and Theories essential to go through the prestigious exam. Solved Examples are given to explain all the concepts for thorough learning. Explanatory Notes have been provided in every chapter for better understanding of the problems asked in the exam. #v&spublishers
Author : Suparno Banerjee
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 178683667X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Indian Science Fiction written by Suparno Banerjee and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study draws from postcolonial theory, science fiction criticism, utopian studies, genre theory, Western and Indian philosophy and history to propose that Indian science fiction functions at the intersection of Indian and Western cultures. The author deploys a diachronic and comparative approach in examining the multilingual science fiction traditions of India to trace the overarching generic evolutions, which he complements with an analysis of specific patterns of hybridity in the genre’s formal and thematic elements – time, space, characters and the epistemologies that build the worlds in Indian science fiction. The work explores the larger patterns and connections visible despite the linguistic and cultural diversities of Indian science fiction traditions.
Author : Rana Dasgupta
Publisher : Granta
ISBN 13 : 1909889334
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Granta 151 written by Rana Dasgupta and published by Granta. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granta's spring issue, guest-edited by award-winning writer Rana Dasgupta, explores membranes of the tissue, self, collective, nation, species and cosmos. It features new poetry by Andrew McMillan, Tishani Doshi and Ida Brjel, a new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, as well as photography from Anita Khemka, Arturo Soto and Mnica de la Torre. Granta 151: Membranes showcases cutting-edge fiction from Lydia Davis, Fatin Abbas, Steven Heighton, J. Robert Lennon, Mahreen Sohail and Chloe Wilson, plus a host of thought-provoking essays: - Emanuele Coccia on birth, metamorphosis and the very strange miracle of life - Mark Doty on gentrification and homelessness in New York City - Anouchka Grose on infidelity and the idea of the unwanted third - Ruchir Joshi on all those kids his son once was - Kapka Kassabova on Lake Ohrid - Anita Roy on the great crested newt - Esther Woolfson on the relationship between humans and animals Plus: Eyal Weizman in conversation with Rana Dasgupta, on contemporary architectural strategies for repelling and dividing people.
Author : Isiah Lavender III
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496811550
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Dis-Orienting Planets written by Isiah Lavender III and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Suparno Banerjee, Cait Coker, Jeshua Enriquez, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Malisa Kurtz, Stephanie Li, Bradford Lyau, Uppinder Mehan, Graham J. Murphy, Baryon Tensor Posadas, Amy J. Ransom, Robin Anne Reid, Haerin Shin, Stephen Hong Sohn, Takayuki Tatsumi, and Timothy J. Yamamura Isiah Lavender III's Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical issues surrounding the racial and ethnic dimensions of science fiction. This edited volume explores depictions of Asia and Asians in science fiction literature, film, and fandom with particular regard to China, Japan, India, and Korea. Dis-Orienting Planets highlights so-called yellow and brown peoples from the constellation of a historically white genre. The collection launches into political representations of Asian identity in science fiction's imagination, from fear of the Yellow Peril and its racist stereotypes to techno-Orientalism and the remains of a postcolonial heritage. Thus the essays, by contributors such as Takayuki Tatsumi, Veronica Hollinger, Uppinder Mehan, and Stephen Hong Sohn, reconfigure the very study of race in science fiction. A follow-up to Lavender's Black and Brown Planets, this collection expands the racial politics governing the renewed visibility of Asia in science fiction. One of the few on this subject, the volume probes Gary Shteyngart's novel Super Sad True Love Story, the acclaimed film Cloud Atlas, and Guillermo del Toro's monster film Pacific Rim, among others. Dis-Orienting Planets embarks on a wide-ranging assessment of Asian representations in science fiction, upon the determination that our visions of the future must include all people of color.
Author : Sami Ahmad Khan
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786837633
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Star Warriors of the Modern Raj written by Sami Ahmad Khan and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is mutating – and its Science Fiction with it. Star Warriors of the Modern Raj is a critical catalogue of contemporary India’s anglophone SF, a path-breaking work that flits between texts, vantage points and frameworks. An alternative to a Eurocentric perspective of SF, this study avoids essentialising definitions and delves into how the world of SF (text) intersects with that of the writer/reader. Fusing paradigms of Science Fiction Studies, South Asian Studies and Postcolonial Studies, among others, the book explicates how India and its SF negotiate one another. It evolves a ‘transMIT thesis’ to analyse how mythology (M), ideology (I) and technology (T) contour Indian SF and its fictional reimaginings. This study identifies the manifestations of divine beings within SF as differing epistemological categories, locates the modes of marginalisation within Indian popular imagination as altars of alterity, before proceeding to analyse how newer technologies engage with socio-political anxieties in and through SF. Interested in learning about Science Fiction and South Asia? Click on the link below to read Mithila Review interview with Sami Ahmad Khan where he discusses his upcoming volume Star Warriors of the Modern Raj. https://mithilareview.com/ahmad_03_21/
Author : Scott Slovic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351682709
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication written by Scott Slovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecocriticism and environmental communication studies have for many years co-existed as parallel disciplines, occasionally crossing paths but typically operating in separate academic spheres. These fields are now rapidly converging, and this handbook aims to reinforce the common concerns and methodologies of the sibling disciplines. The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication charts the history of the relationship between ecocriticism and environmental communication studies, while also highlighting key new paradigms in information studies, diverse examples of practical applications of environmental communication and textual analysis, and the patterns and challenges of environmental communication in non-Western societies. Contributors to this book include literary, film and religious studies scholars, communication studies specialists, environmental historians, practicing journalists, art critics, linguists, ethnographers, sociologists, literary theorists, and others, but all focus their discussions on key issues in textual representations of human–nature relationships and on the challenges and possibilities of environmental communication. The handbook is designed to map existing trends in both ecocriticism and environmental communication and to predict future directions. This handbook will be an essential reference for teachers, students, and practitioners of environmental literature, film, journalism, communication, and rhetoric, and well as the broader meta-discipline of environmental humanities.
Author : Rohmani Nur Indah
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 2384760025
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Media (AICOLLIM 2022) written by Rohmani Nur Indah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. AICoLLiM is the annual conference on the area of language, literature and media. It provides a forum for presenting and discussing the expanding paradigm, latest innovations, results and developments in language, literature and media. The conference provides a forum for lecturers, students, researchers, practitioners and media professionals engaged in research and development to share ideas, interact with others, present their latest works, and strengthen the collaboration among academics, researcher and professionals.
Author : Ulka Anjaria
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107079969
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A History of the Indian Novel in English written by Ulka Anjaria and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the Indian Novel in English traces the development of the Indian novel from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up until the present day. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes extensive essays that shed light on the legacy of English in Indian writing. Organized thematically, these essays examine how English was "made Indian" by writers who used the language to address specifically Indian concerns. Such concerns revolved around the question of what it means to be modern as well as how the novel could be used for anti-colonial activism. By the 1980s, the Indian novel in English was a global phenomenon, and India is now the third largest publisher of English-language books. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History invites readers to question conventional accounts of India's literary history.
Author : Asha Kasbekar Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851096418
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Pop Culture India! written by Asha Kasbekar Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The over-the-top musicals of Bollywood may be the most familiar aspect of Indian popular culture, but there are many more, all explored in this fascinating volume. Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle follows the rise of modern India's pop culture world, especially since the 1980s, when relaxed censorship and economic liberalization led to an explosion in movies, music, mass media, consumerism, spiritual practices, and more. It is a captivating introduction to a diverse nation whose appetite for entertainment has led to some surprising twists and turns in recent history. How did a popular Indian television series spark a change in government and the rise of Hindu nationalism? Are some Bollywood film companies laundering money for organized crime, or even al Qaeda? What accounts for the overwhelming popularity of that quaint vestige of colonialism, cricket? The answers, and many more intriguing insights, await the reader in Pop Culture India!
