Understanding Nation and Postnationalism Narrative and Context in South Asian Literature

List of Figures. List of Contributors. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Section I: Understanding Nation: Narrative and Performance 1. The Collapse of the Nation in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay 2. Performing Region, Realizing Nation 3. Re-contextualizing Identities and Ideologies of a Nation 4. A Postnational Reading of Ethical Universality in Vishnu Sharma's Panchatantra 5. Mapping the Border, Mapping the Mind: A Study of Sunanda Sikdar's Dayamayeer Katha (A Life Long Ago) 6. Subnationality Vis-À-Vis Self-Determination in Indira Goswami's The Shadow of Kamakhya and Anjum Hasan's Lunatic in My Head Section II: Nation and Postnationalism: Ideology and Narration 7. Apocalyptic Discovery of Cultural and National Identity in the Colonized Protagonists of Amitav Ghosh Novels: Evidence from The Glass Palace and Flood of Fire 8. A Critique of Democracy: An Analysis of Arundhati Roy's Select Non-Fiction 9. Nation- Building and Development Discourse vis-à-vis Indigenous Rights: A Study in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar's "The Adivasi Will Not Dance" 10. Family and Indian English Novel: A Study of Anita Rau Badami's The Hero's Walk 11. Persecution, Exile and Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits - Home away from Home in Our Moon has Blood Clots 12. Undoing the Folded Lie: Reflections on the Subaltern Will to Subversion 13. Rabindranath Tagore's Nationalism and Postcolonial Dissensus in Tasher Desh 14. Rebel as/in Creative Annihilator: Resistance in Nazrul Islam and Bairagi Kainla Index