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846711
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Nair, Rukmini Bhaya.
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Lying on the Postcolonial Couch : : the Idea of Indifference.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, 2002.
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1 online resource (342 pages)
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0816633657
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: 0816652899
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: 9780816633654
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: 9780816652891
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0816690359
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9780816690350
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| Contents
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: INTERLOCUTION: THE ARRANGEMENT OF COUCHES; 1. Reading Texts, Resurrecting Cultures: Colonial Poetry in India (1757-1857); 2. The Pedigree of the White Stallion: Postcoloniality and Literary History; 3. Translation as a Speech Act: Twelve Versions of One Subversive Verse; PART II: CIRUMLOCUTION: THE INSTITUTION OF INDIFFERENCE; 4. Glossolalia: The Dissimilar Twins of Language and Literature; 5. Multiculturalism: Other Worlds in Edgar Allan Poe and Satyajit Ray; 6. Colonization: Omeros Sails between the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean.
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"Nair's book gives postcolonialism a decent burial and looks forward to a new language of community. It exposes the numbing rituals of colonial and postcolonial indifference with a light touch, pausing on postmodern theories on the way." Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
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Apathy-- India.
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Postcolonialism-- India.
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Apathy.
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Politics and government
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Postcolonialism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- General.
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India, Politics and government, 1947-
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India.
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| Dewey Classification
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302.17302/.17
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DS480.84.R79 2002
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