Migrant Form: Anti-colonial Aesthetics in Joyce, Rushdie and Ray

by Gaurav Majumdar

Migrant Form examines the works of James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, and Satyajit Ray for the anti-colonial arguments in their unsettled, and unsettling, aesthetics. Among the questions it engages are the following: What are the aesthetic moves through which art expresses its resistance to dominance and demands for conformity? How can we define anti-colonial aesthetics? How do these aesthetics manifest themselves in different media such as literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433105039
• ISBN13: 9781433105036
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"