Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature

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1 Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature

2 The Future of Minority Studies A timely series that represents the most innovative work being done in the broad field defined as minority studies. Drawing on the intellectual and political vision of the Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Research Project, this book series will publish studies of the lives, experiences, and cultures of minority groups broadly defined to include all those whose access to social and cultural institutions is limited primarily because of their social identities. For more information about the Future of Minority Studies (FMS) International Research Project, visit Series Editors Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College, CUNY Michael Hames-García, University of Oregon Satya P. Mohanty, Cornell University Paula M. L. Moya, Stanford University Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan Identity Politics Reconsidered edited by Linda Martín Alcoff, Michael Hames-Garcia, Satya P. Mohanty, and Paula M. L. Moya Ambiguity and Sexuality: A Theory of Sexual Identity by William S. Wilkerson Identity in Education edited by Susan Sánchez-Casal and Amie A. Macdonald Rethinking Chicana/o and Latina/o Popular Culture by Daniel Enrique Pérez The Future of Diversity: Academic Leaders Reflect on American Higher Education edited by Daniel Little and Satya P. Mohanty Minority Reports: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Michael Borgstrom Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature: A View from India edited and with an introduction by Satya P. Mohanty

3 Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature A View from India Edited and with an Introduction by Satya P. Mohanty

4 COLONIALISM, MODERNITY, AND LITERATURE Copyright Satya P. Mohanty, Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition All rights reserved. First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN in the United States a division of St. Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number , of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Colonialism, modernity, and literature : a view from India / edited and with an introduction by Satya P. Mohanty. p. cm. (Future of minority studies) 1. Indic literature 20th century History and criticism. 2. India In literature. 3. Colonies in literature. 4. Imperialism in literature. 5. Postcolonialism in literature. 6. Postcolonialism India. I. Mohanty, Satya P. (Satya Prakash), PK5416.C dc Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: March

5 To U. R. Ananthamurthy, who provided the inspiration...

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7 Contents Introduction: Viewing Colonialism and Modernity through Indian Literature 1 Satya P. Mohanty I Views from Below: Comparing Literary Perspectives 1 Critical Realisms in the Global South: Narrative Transculturation in Senapati s Six Acres and a Third and García Márquez s One Hundred Years of Solitude 25 Jennifer Harford Vargas 2 Views from Above and Below: George Eliot and Fakir Mohan Senapati 55 Paul L. Sawyer 3 Two Classic Tales of Village India: The Realist Epistemology of Chha Mana Atha Guntha and Godaan 91 Himansu S. Mohapatra 4 The Emergence of the Modern Subject in Oriya and Assamese Literatures: Fakir Mohan Senapati and Hemchandra Barua 113 Tilottoma Misra 5 The Indigenous Modernity of Gurajada Apparao and Fakir Mohan Senapati 135 Velcheru Narayana Rao 6 Why Don t You Speak? : The Narrative Politics of Silence in Senapati, Premchand, and Monica Ali 153 Ulka Anjaria

8 viii contents II The Many Contexts of Six Acres and a Third 7 The Representation of Women and Gender Relations in Six Acres and a Third 173 Claire Horan 8 Rediscovering Ramachandra Mangaraj and Historicizing Senapati s Critique of Colonialism 187 Gaganendra Nath Dash 9 The Tradition-Modernity Dialectic in Six Acres and a Third 207 Debendra K. Dash and Dipti R. Pattanaik Appendix: Fair Without, Foul Within: Bahire Rongsong Bhitare Kowabhaturi 229 Hemchandra Barua List of Contributors 257 Index 259