Migrant epistemologies in Indian nonfiction of the long twentieth century /

"Attending to non-fiction texts from India and the Global South, Migrant Epistemologies identifies migratory contact zones as sites on which contrary epistemic stances may co-exist, despite their differences, in a symbiotic ecology. Given the increasing traffic between differentially empowered...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Basu, Manisha (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2025]
Subjects:	Indic literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Emigration and immigration in literature > 20th century > History and criticism. India > Emigration and immigration. Littérature de l'Inde > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Nonfiction Booms and the Migration Turn
Chapter 2 Of the Migrations and Mobilities of Free Men and Rats: Aman Sethi and Amitava Kumar
Chapter 3 Migrant Minds, Colonial Legacies, Public Intellection: Jawaharlal Nehru, Verrier Elwin and Ramachandra Guha
Chapter 4 Migration and Environmental Justice: Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy
Chapter 5 The Migrant Female Voices of Nineteenth-Century Bengal: Krishnabhabini Das and Saradasundari Devi
Chapter 6 Visceral Needs and the Need for Others in the Migrant World: Rigoberta Menchú, Jamaica Kincaid, and Slavenka Drakulic
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