Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture

Abstract

Contents: Poles of Recovery - In the Waiting-Room of History: On Provincializing Europe - The Flute of Modernity: Tagore and the Middle Class - The East as a Career: On 'Strangeness' in Indian Writing - Argufying: On Amartya Sen and the Deferral of an Indian Modernity - This is Not Music: The Emergence of the Domain of 'Culture' - 'Huge Baggy Monster': Mimetic Theories of the Indian Novel after Rushdie - Two Giant Brothers: Tagore's Revisionist 'Orient' - Travels in the Subculture of Modernity - Thoughts in a Temple: Hinduism in the Free Market - On the Nature of Indian Gothic: The Imagination of Ashis Nandy - 'Hollywood aur Bollywood' - The View from Malabar Hill - Stories of Domicile - Notes on the Novel after Globalization - Anti-Fusion - Arun Kolatkar and the Tradition of Loitering - Learning to Write: V.S. Naipaul, Vernacular Artist - A Bottle of Ink, a Pen and a Blotter: On R.K. Narayan - 'A Feather! A Very Feather upon the Face!': On Kipling - Returning to Earth: The Poetry of Jibanananda Das - Women in Love as Post-Human Essay - Champion of Hide and Seek: Raj Kamal Jha's Surrealism - Midnight at Marble Arch: On The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid - Beyond 'Confidence': Rushdie and the Creation Myth of Indian English Writing.

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