Berthold Schoene
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638154
- eISBN:
- 9780748651795
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638154.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter examines three novels, written by Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Hari Kunzru. These novels are concerned with the feasibility of sustaining the dynamics of Nancean world-formation in the ...
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This chapter examines three novels, written by Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Hari Kunzru. These novels are concerned with the feasibility of sustaining the dynamics of Nancean world-formation in the context of an ever-thickening (neo-)nationalist unrest and global glomicity. The chapter also notes that globalisation is usually held responsible for the elimination of cultural difference and replacing it with worldwide homogeneity.Less
This chapter examines three novels, written by Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Hari Kunzru. These novels are concerned with the feasibility of sustaining the dynamics of Nancean world-formation in the context of an ever-thickening (neo-)nationalist unrest and global glomicity. The chapter also notes that globalisation is usually held responsible for the elimination of cultural difference and replacing it with worldwide homogeneity.
Jill Didur
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195394429
- eISBN:
- 9780190252809
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195394429.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter offers a reading of Kiran Desai’s 2006 novel The Inheritance of Loss and examines its depiction of the Himalayan environment. It examines how colonial representations of the British ...
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This chapter offers a reading of Kiran Desai’s 2006 novel The Inheritance of Loss and examines its depiction of the Himalayan environment. It examines how colonial representations of the British “hill stations” of the Himalayas as Gardens of Eden are transformed by Desai in her novel to provide a “counterlandscaping” of colonial fantasies as well as the separatist demands of the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF). It also describes the queering of the Himalayan landscape that gives rise to a postcolonial ecology in terms of a contingent model of community. Finally, the chapter discusses how The Inheritance of Loss displaces normalized notions of the land, gardens, and nature.Less
This chapter offers a reading of Kiran Desai’s 2006 novel The Inheritance of Loss and examines its depiction of the Himalayan environment. It examines how colonial representations of the British “hill stations” of the Himalayas as Gardens of Eden are transformed by Desai in her novel to provide a “counterlandscaping” of colonial fantasies as well as the separatist demands of the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF). It also describes the queering of the Himalayan landscape that gives rise to a postcolonial ecology in terms of a contingent model of community. Finally, the chapter discusses how The Inheritance of Loss displaces normalized notions of the land, gardens, and nature.
