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Freitag | 14.00 Uhr | Beyond the Trope of National Homecoming: Indian English Life Writings and the Secret History of Anglicized Self-fashioning Prof. Dr. Sayan Chattopadhyay, IIT Kanpur (India), Associate Professor of English For more than six decades now, Indian English literature has been primarily studied through the lens of either Indian nationalism or postcolonialism. Predictably, therefore, the process of canon formation of Indian anglophone literature has prioritised texts which can be easily read as narratives of anticolonial resistance or assertions of the indigenous self-identity. In terms of Indian English life writings, this has meant foregrounding autobiographical texts written by political activists like Surendranath Banerjee, M.R. Jayakar, and Jawaharlal Nehru who participated in India’s nationalist movement against the British empire. Adresse Gebäude 4130 Raum 130.00.03 Voßstrasse 2 69115 Heidelberg Veranstalter Südasien-Institut Homepage Veranstalter http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de Kontakt |