The Last Jet-engine Laugh
Author: Ruchir Joshi
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A novel explores generation gap in an Indian family over a century of political and social turmoil in post-colonial India.
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The Last Jet-engine Laugh
Author: Ruchir Joshi
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9788172234973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It Is The Not-So-Distant Future, And In The Belligerent Wannabe Superpower That Is India, Para, A Tomboyish Fighter Pilot, Flies Sorties Against The Pak-Saudi Alliance. She Has Been Trained To Kill, To Be A Deadly Instrument For The Military Ambitions Of The Ultra-Modern, Ultra-Competitive State. And Yet It Is Less Than A Hundred Years Since Her Smart Sarcastic, Principled Grandparents Met On A Non-Violent Demonstration Against British Rule In Ahmedabad, Falling In Love As They Were Trampled By Mounted Police. Their Only Son Paresh, Grows Up To Drift Through Life, Torn In Different Directions All At Once, Though He Does Produce An Entirely Spirited, Directed Daughter Para. How Did India Get Para From Her Grandparents? And What Happened To The Generation In Between, Of Paresh And His Peers? Moving Between Crowd Scenes And Midair Battles, Between Sexual Farce And Social Embarrassment, Joshi Maps The Arcs Made By These Four Striking Characters, By The Family They Make Up, And By Their Country, Across A Complex And Confused Century. Joshi'S Writing Is Sharp, Loose, Fluent And Varied. The Last Jet-Engine Laugh Is A Novel That Is Jaded And Yet Principled, Ribald And Yet Serious, Vigorous Yet Sensitive. It Feels Authentic, Considered And Moving At All Times. It Marks The Arrival Of A Writer Whose Prose Is Fresh, As Surprising And As Distinctly Original As Any To Come Out Of India In The Last Two Decades.
Last Jet Engine Laugh
Author: Ruchir Joshi
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 2000-09
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780002570909
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Three generations of a Gujarati family track Indian history back to 1930 and forward into the 21st century. The grandparents are disciples of Gandhi, their only son drifts through life. His daughter is a squadron leader in the Indian Air Force when, in the near future, India is at war.
Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War
Author: Paul Williams
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1846317088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ranging across fiction and poetry, critical theory and film, comics and speeches, Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War explores how writers, thinkers, and filmmakers have tackled the question: Are nuclear weapons white? Paul Williams addresses myriad representations of nuclear weapons: the Manhattan Project, the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear tests across the globe, and the anxiety surrounding the superpowers' devastating arsenals. Ultimately, Williams concludes that many texts act as a reminder that the power enjoyed by the white Western world imperils the whole planet.
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A Matter of Taste
Author: Nilanjana S. Roy
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780143031482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A delectable collection of writing on food and its place in our lives that brings together some of the most significant Indian voices over the last century. From lavish meals, modern diets and cooking lessons that serve as a rite of passage to fake fasts and real ones, fish, feni, and fiery meals that smack of revenge, this book has something to satisfy every palate. Gandhi's guilt-ridden account of his failed flirtation with eating meat starkly complements Ruchir Joshi's toast to the senses as he describes his characters discovering a truly alternative use for some perfectly innocent shrikhand. In unique gastronomic takes on history, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Saadat Hasan Manto ensure that we will never look at chutney, a Tibetan momo or jelly in quite the same way again.
Dis-Orienting Planets
Author: Isiah Lavender
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2017-04-07
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1496811550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With contributions by: Suparno Banerjee, Cait Coker, Jeshua Enriquez, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Malisa Kurtz, Stephanie Li, Bradford Lyau, Uppinder Mehan, Graham J. Murphy, Baryon Tensor Posadas, Amy J. Ransom, Robin Anne Reid, Haerin Shin, Stephen Hong Sohn, Takayuki Tatsumi, and Timothy J. Yamamura Isiah Lavender III's Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical issues surrounding the racial and ethnic dimensions of science fiction. This edited volume explores depictions of Asia and Asians in science fiction literature, film, and fandom with particular regard to China, Japan, India, and Korea. Dis-Orienting Planets highlights so-called yellow and brown peoples from the constellation of a historically white genre. The collection launches into political representations of Asian identity in science fiction's imagination, from fear of the Yellow Peril and its racist stereotypes to techno-Orientalism and the remains of a postcolonial heritage. Thus the essays, by contributors such as Takayuki Tatsumi, Veronica Hollinger, Uppinder Mehan, and Stephen Hong Sohn, reconfigure the very study of race in science fiction. A follow-up to Lavender's Black and Brown Planets, this new collection expands the racial politics governing the renewed visibility of Asia in science fiction. One of the few on this subject, the volume probes Gary Shteyngart's novel Super Sad True Love Story, the acclaimed film Cloud Atlas, and Guillermo del Toro's monster film Pacific Rim, among others. Dis-Orienting Planets embarks on a wide-ranging assessment of Asian representations in science fiction, upon the determination that our visions of the future must include all people of color.
The Nation of India in Contemporary Indian Literature
Author: A. Guttman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-10-15
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0230606938
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book investigates representations of the nation of India as characterized by unity and diversity in the works of six contemporary novelists, linking their work to important political, historical and theoretical writings.
Contemporary Indian Writing in English between Global Fiction and Transmodern Historiography
Author: Christoph Senft
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-01-12
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9004277005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study offers a comprehensive overview of Indian writing in English in the 21st century. Through ten exemplary analyses in which canonical authors stand next to less well-known and diasporic ones Christoph Senft provides deep insights into India’s complex literary world and develops an argumentative framework in which narrative texts are interpreted as transmodern re-readings of history, historicity and memory. Reconciling different postmodern and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the interpretation and construction of literature and history, Senft substitutes traditional, Eurocentric and universalistic views on past and present by decolonial and pluralistic practices. He thus helps to better understand the entanglements of colonial politics and cultural production, not only on the subcontinent.
The Postnational Fantasy
Author: Masood Ashraf Raja
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0786485558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In twelve critical and interdisciplinary essays, this text examines the relationship between the fantastic in novels, movies and video games and real-world debates about nationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Topics covered include science fiction and postcolonialism, issues of ethnicity, nation and transnational discourse. Altogether, these essays chart a new discursive space, where postcolonial theory and science fiction and fantasy studies work cooperatively to expand our understanding of the fantastic, while simultaneously expanding the scope of postcolonial discussions.
