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Defamiliarizing India: Cosmopolitanism as a condition of aesthetic and political Survival

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Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters
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Laetitia Zecchini discusses the cosmopolitanism of several post-independence Indian poets and artists.
Indian poets and artists situated in specific spaces, such as Arun Kolatkar, from Bombay, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, from Allahabad or Gulammohammed Sheikh from Baroda fashion a cosmopolitanism that must be envisaged as a context of creation, as a practice of writing, reading, translating and creating, and as a project. This project is inseparable from a poetics of 'reworlding' or defamiliarization, from the experience and defense of plurality, and from the 'resilient and inventive strategies for survival' Clifford associates with the notion of discrepant cosmopolitanism.

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Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters
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Laetitia Zecchini
Keywords
literature
literary criticism
Colonialism
postcolonialism
india
Arun Kolatkar
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Gulammohammed Sheikh
Department: Trinity College
Date Added: 05/04/2016
Duration: 00:21:44

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