(In)fusion Approach Theory, Contestation, Limits

by Ghosh, Ranjan; Chandra, Vikram; Miller, J Hillis; Chakravorty, Gayatri; Baer, Ben; Bhabha, Homi; Farred, Grant; Womack, Kenneth; Jahshan, Paul; Ashcroft, Bill; Morton, Stephen; Kolodziejczyk, Dorota; Muller, Adam; Chambers, Claire; Ivory, James M.; Macdon

• ISBN13: 9780761834656
• ISBN10: 0761834656
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-11
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Opposing all claims that theory has come to an end, this book presents a fresh perspective on our reading, understanding, and application of theory and its affect on our interpretation of texts. (In)fusion theory challenges efforts to see theory as inhibiting by presenting an approach that is innovative, eclectic, and subtle in order to draw out competing and constellating ideas and opinions. This collected volume of essays examines (In)fusion theory and demonstrates how the theory can be applied to the reading of various works of Indian English novelists such as Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai, and Vikram Seth.

Table of Contents

(In)fusion approach : the critical manifesto	p. 1
(In)fusion approach : theory, contestation, limits
'Thinking' text and (in)fusion theory	p. 21
(In)fusion, textual attitude, theory	p. 25
Postcoloniality, reading and theory	p. 31
The ethics of (in)fusion	p. 45
Cyberspace : (im)porting (in)fusion theory	p. 57
Post-colonial horizons	p. 73
Infusion theory, communalism and postcolonial futures : a reading of Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India	p. 85
(In)fusionising a few Indian English novels
The epigon coming the first : Midnight's Children as the postmodern authentic	p. 95
Taking "experience" seriously in Anita Desai's The Village By the Sea	p. 117
"Tents blooming in the coconut groves" : the effects of (neo)colonialism on the Indian landscape in Kamala Markandaya's Pleasure City	p. 137
The ethics of geography : a contrapuntal reading of the fictional "homeland" in Salman Rushdie's Shame	p. 145
"The brave bakery of reagan" : The Golden Gate as postmodern poem and postcolonial novel	p. 161
Through the looking glass : realism and cosmopolitics in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines	p. 173
Spatial discourses in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay	p. 189
Ripping apart a woman's heart : sacrifice, abjection and marriage in The Thousand Faces of Night	p. 197
Suitable allusions : literature, music, and unintended consequences in Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy	p. 213
Mythically modern India : (de)sacralising the nation in Gita Mehta's A River Sutra	p. 227
The epics of everyday life : Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain in between postmodernism and the poetics of Indian aesthetics	p. 239
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things : the body and irrational structures in a postcolonial narrative of pain	p. 253
Seismic shifts - destabilising the postmodern world(s) of Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet	p. 267
What you see is what you are : feminine narcissism in The Book of Shadows	p. 279
Infusive mutinies : a critique of diasporic politics in Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace	p. 287
'Eh stupid!' 'saala!' : (in)fusionising the 'impolite' in the fiction of Amit Chaudhuri	p. 305
Epilogue
Writing, Indian English literature and (in)fusion	p. 325
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