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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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 →Christoph Senft provides a set of re-readings of contemporary Indian narrative texts as decolonial and pluralistic approaches to the past and thus offers a comprehensive overview of the subcontinent’s literary landscape in the 21st century.
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.
Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication
Author: Scott Slovic
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-02-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1351682709
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ecocriticism and environmental communication studies have for many years co-existed as parallel disciplines, occasionally crossing paths but typically operating in separate academic spheres. These fields are now rapidly converging, and this handbook aims to reinforce the common concerns and methodologies of the sibling disciplines. The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication charts the history of the relationship between ecocriticism and environmental communication studies, while also highlighting key new paradigms in information studies, diverse examples of practical applications of environmental communication and textual analysis, and the patterns and challenges of environmental communication in non-Western societies. Contributors to this book include literary, film and religious studies scholars, communication studies specialists, environmental historians, practicing journalists, art critics, linguists, ethnographers, sociologists, literary theorists, and others, but all focus their discussions on key issues in textual representations of human–nature relationships and on the challenges and possibilities of environmental communication. The handbook is designed to map existing trends in both ecocriticism and environmental communication and to predict future directions. This handbook will be an essential reference for teachers, students, and practitioners of environmental literature, film, journalism, communication, and rhetoric, and well as the broader meta-discipline of environmental humanities.
Indian Science Fiction
Author: Suparno Banerjee
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 178683667X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study draws from postcolonial theory, science fiction criticism, utopian studies, genre theory, Western and Indian philosophy and history to propose that Indian science fiction functions at the intersection of Indian and Western cultures. The author deploys a diachronic and comparative approach in examining the multilingual science fiction traditions of India to trace the overarching generic evolutions, which he complements with an analysis of specific patterns of hybridity in the genre’s formal and thematic elements – time, space, characters and the epistemologies that build the worlds in Indian science fiction. The work explores the larger patterns and connections visible despite the linguistic and cultural diversities of Indian science fiction traditions.
