Rohit De
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691174433
- eISBN:
- 9780691185132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691174433.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Indian Constitution. The Indian Constitution is the longest surviving constitution in the postcolonial world, and it continues to dominate public ...
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Indian Constitution. The Indian Constitution is the longest surviving constitution in the postcolonial world, and it continues to dominate public life in India. It did not descend upon the people; it was produced and reproduced in everyday encounters. From the earliest days of India's independence, citizens' political action influenced the court and reveals a long history of public-interest litigation driven by litigants rather than judges. However, despite the centrality of the Constitution to public and private lives in South Asia, it remains “ill served by historical imagination” and its history understudied. It is partly because Indian constitutionalism defies easy explanations. This book thus traces the process through which the Constitution emerged as the dominant field for politics, breaking new methodological ground by studying the Constitution through the daily interpretive acts of ordinary people as well as judges and state officials.Less
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Indian Constitution. The Indian Constitution is the longest surviving constitution in the postcolonial world, and it continues to dominate public life in India. It did not descend upon the people; it was produced and reproduced in everyday encounters. From the earliest days of India's independence, citizens' political action influenced the court and reveals a long history of public-interest litigation driven by litigants rather than judges. However, despite the centrality of the Constitution to public and private lives in South Asia, it remains “ill served by historical imagination” and its history understudied. It is partly because Indian constitutionalism defies easy explanations. This book thus traces the process through which the Constitution emerged as the dominant field for politics, breaking new methodological ground by studying the Constitution through the daily interpretive acts of ordinary people as well as judges and state officials.
Anshuman A. Mondal
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719070044
- eISBN:
- 9781781701102
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719070044.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter studies Ghosh's meditation on questions of religion, identity, nationalism and colonialism in a postcolonial world. It takes a look at The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, The Glass ...
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This chapter studies Ghosh's meditation on questions of religion, identity, nationalism and colonialism in a postcolonial world. It takes a look at The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, The Glass Palace and The Hungry Tide. This chapter also describes Ghosh's most thorough attempt to work through the political logic of modernity in the postcolonial world.Less
This chapter studies Ghosh's meditation on questions of religion, identity, nationalism and colonialism in a postcolonial world. It takes a look at The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, The Glass Palace and The Hungry Tide. This chapter also describes Ghosh's most thorough attempt to work through the political logic of modernity in the postcolonial world.
Wendy Knepper
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617031540
- eISBN:
- 9781621036074
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617031540.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This book examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Patrick Chamoiseau’s work sheds light on the dynamic processes of ...
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This book examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Patrick Chamoiseau’s work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolization that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. Chamoiseau is the recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the prestigious Prix Goncourt for the epic novel Texaco. His diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, treatises, and other genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the postcolonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective. This book is for scholars interested in francophone, Caribbean, and world literatures as well as cultural studies, and scholars and students with interests in creolization, neocolonialism, and globalization will find it particularly valuable. It brings Chamoiseau’s major works of fiction into dialogue with lesser-known texts, including unpublished theatrical works, screenplays, visual texts, and treatises. This holistic, comprehensive, and largely chronological study of Chamoiseau’s oeuvre includes analyses of various authorial strategies, especially the use of narrative masques, cross-cultural storytelling techniques, and creolizing poetics.Less
This book examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Patrick Chamoiseau’s work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolization that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. Chamoiseau is the recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the prestigious Prix Goncourt for the epic novel Texaco. His diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, treatises, and other genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the postcolonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective. This book is for scholars interested in francophone, Caribbean, and world literatures as well as cultural studies, and scholars and students with interests in creolization, neocolonialism, and globalization will find it particularly valuable. It brings Chamoiseau’s major works of fiction into dialogue with lesser-known texts, including unpublished theatrical works, screenplays, visual texts, and treatises. This holistic, comprehensive, and largely chronological study of Chamoiseau’s oeuvre includes analyses of various authorial strategies, especially the use of narrative masques, cross-cultural storytelling techniques, and creolizing poetics.
Robert F. Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833343
- eISBN:
- 9780824870287
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833343.003.0017
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This concluding chapter looks into Guam’s political situation and argues that the country is a special case of colonialism that will go on for years in a postcolonial world unless Washington and the ...
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This concluding chapter looks into Guam’s political situation and argues that the country is a special case of colonialism that will go on for years in a postcolonial world unless Washington and the people of Guam reach a compromise that meets the needs of both sides to end the colonial status of the island. As of the moment, Guam’s economic viability is still dependent on its strategic location and its enduring military value—both of which factor in to its neo-colonial situation at present. Though this colonialism has been beneficial to Guam in many respects, a deepening moral corrosion was manifested in recent history by the failure to improve Guam’s political status and by the increasing frivolity of the island’s leaders. The chapter concludes with some reflections on Guam’s political future.Less
This concluding chapter looks into Guam’s political situation and argues that the country is a special case of colonialism that will go on for years in a postcolonial world unless Washington and the people of Guam reach a compromise that meets the needs of both sides to end the colonial status of the island. As of the moment, Guam’s economic viability is still dependent on its strategic location and its enduring military value—both of which factor in to its neo-colonial situation at present. Though this colonialism has been beneficial to Guam in many respects, a deepening moral corrosion was manifested in recent history by the failure to improve Guam’s political status and by the increasing frivolity of the island’s leaders. The chapter concludes with some reflections on Guam’s political future.
