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The Essays Assembled In Clearing A Space, Chaudhuri Draws On His Own Experiences To Offer An Acute Exploration Of What It Means To Be A Modern Indian In Relation To History Often Beginning With The Personal, He Inquires Into The Nature Of The Secular In India, Into The History Of Such Categories As The West, The Foreign, The Global And The Exotic, And Into The Frequently Torn And Self Divided Nature Of Modern Indian Identity With The Same Elegance And Intelligence For Which He è Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture (The Past in the Present) á Download by è Amit Chaudhuri Has Become Known, Chaudhuri Writes In These Essays About Indian Popular Culture And High Culture, Travel And Location In Paris, Bombay, Dublin, Calcutta And New York, Empire And Nationalism, Indian And Western Cinema, The Place Of The Everyday In Indian Creativity, Music, Art And Literature, Politics, Race, Cosmopolitanism, Urban Landscapes, Hollywood And Bollywood, Anglophone India, Internationalism, Globalisation, The Indian English Tradition That Predates Rushdie, Post Colonialism And Much
↠´ Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture (The Past in the Present) ↠´ Spectacularly insightful, if you are able to immerse into it Not a light read Cant grasp the depth of the issues discussed over a casual read However if you do manage to get yourself on the same wavelength as Amit Choudhary, its a deliciousy joyous read Try at your own risk
About The Author
Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta in 1962, and grew up in Bombay He read English at University College, London, where he took his BA with First Class Honours, and completed his doctorate on critical theory and the poetry of D.H Lawrence at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Dervorguilla Scholar He was Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 1992 95, and Leverhulme Special R