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This volume explores the ways in which religion in the South Asian literary landscape play a significant role in the creation of political structures and secular democracies in South Asia. It highlights how the concepts of nation, nationalism, and secularism in South Asia is frequently determined by the rhetoric of racism, fundamentalism and religious fanaticism, minority politics, issues of caste, class, and ethnic identity, border politics, diaspora, among other factors.
This edited volume investigates the extent to which national identities are regarded as potent dimensions of social participation in South Asian literature. It studies key works of many South Asian writers to explicate how the rich national and secular dynamics of the South Asian context remain entwined with questions such as:
- How could democratic processes be implemented in independent states by separating politics from religion?
- How do certain literary texts depict the notion of nationalism expanding beyond the concept of a single nation due to its intricate ethnic, regional, and cultural offshoots?
- How does religious mobilisation in South Asian literary narratives become a carrier of secularism within and beyond South Asian countries?
- How can (mis)conceptions regarding religious fundamentalism be understood through the policies and politics of secularism and postcolonial nationalism?
Taking readers through literary and cultural analysis of diverse literary productions, this volume will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of literature, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, identity politics and political philosophy, modern history, and South Asia studies.
Contents
Introduction: Nations, Nationalism and South Asia
- Goutam Karmakar and Nukhbah Taj Langah
Part I: Narrating the nations: Minoritization, Partition and Intersectionalities
1. Intizar Husain's Basti, Megha Majumdar's A Burning, and the Evolution of Nationalism since the Partition
- John C. Hawley
2. Reckoning with Risk, Contesting Constraint: Osman Haneef's Blasphemy and the Parameters of Secular Criticism
- Madeline Clements
3. Reading Kafela as a Counterpublic in a Secular-Liberal State
- Arju Khatun
4. Recuperating Pakistan's Syncretic Pasts: Decentering Islamic Nationalism in Kamila Shamsie's A God in Every Stone
- Rajender Kaur
5. Heterotopic (Literary) Formations: The Obliterated Body in Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage
-Thilini N K Meegaswatta
6. 'Destroying the Household' for Independence: Women's Counterspaces in Khadija Mastur's Partition Novels
- Sheelalipi Sahana
7. Re-cartographizing Nationalism: Postcolonial Rhizomatic Interventions into Manjushree Thapa's Seasons of Flight
- Abhisek Ghosal
8. Kamila Shamsie's Broken Verses: Questioning Women's Action Forum's Secular Ontology
- Muhammad Safdar
9. Dialectics of Art and Activism: Progressive Consciousness in Select Lyrics and Essays of Jyotiprasad Agarwalla
- Dhurjjati Sarma
10. Reimagining Happiness and the Nation in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- Saumya Lal
Part II: Identity, Transnationalism and South Asia
11. A Bihari among the Bengalis: Persecution of Non-Bengali Muslims during the Liberation War of 1971 in Syed Manzurul Islam's Song of Our Swampland
- Asif Iqbal
12. Salman Rushdie and the Hindu Right: Female Sexuality, Nation, and Censorship in Rushdie's Novels and its Imprints in Deepa Mehta's Films
- Lopamudra Basu
13. "How do I speak about my people's contemporary circumstances?": Representation and Contestation of Identity in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih's Funeral Nights
- Basil N. Darlong Diengdoh
14. Imagined Micro-solidarity in Search of Belonging: Distant Nationalisms in Channa Wickremesekera's Distant Warriors
- Sanghamitra Dalal
15. Reconceptualizing the "Barak/ Bengali Identity" in the Indian Nation-state Paradigm: A Study of Select Short Stories from Mithilesh Bhattacharjee's Desh Bhager Golpo
- Nabanita Paul
16. Confirmation of the Indian Talam: Performing National Identity in Rashma Kalsie's Play Melbourne Talam
- Khaoula Chakour
17. The Self as the Other: Religious and Secular Sense of Place in Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger
- Barnali Sarkar
