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008			140507s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781138777361 (hbk)
041			_aeng
082	0	0	_a820.9954 _bHOE
100	1		_aHoene, Christin. _911386
245	1	0	_aMusic and identity in postcolonial British-South Asian literature / _cby Christin Hoene.
250			_a1st ed :
260			_aRoutledge ; _bNew York ; _c2015.
300			_ax, 168 p; _ehbk,
490	0		_aRoutledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ;
520			_a"This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag, Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album, and Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with reference to other texts, such as E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and Vikram Seth's An Equal Music. The analyzed novels feature different kinds of music, from Indian classical to non-classical traditions, and from Western classical music to pop music and rock 'n' roll. Music is depicted as a cultural artifact and as a purely aestheticized art form at the same time. As a cultural artifact, music derives meaning from its socio-cultural context of production and serves as a frame of reference to explore postcolonial identities on their own terms. As purely aesthetic art, music escapes its contextual meaning. The transgressive qualities of music render it capable of expressing identities irrespective of origin and politics of location. Thereby, music in the novels marks a very productive space to imagine the postcolonial nation and to rewrite imperial history, to express the cultural hybridity of characters in-between nations, to analyze the state of the nation and life in the multicultural diaspora of contemporary Great Britain, and to explore the ramifications of cultural globalization versus cultural imperialism. It will be a useful research and teaching tool for those interested in postcolonial literature, music studies, cultural studies, contemporary literature and South-Asian literature"--
650		0	_aSouth Asian fiction (English) _xHistory and criticism. _911387
650		0	_aMusic in literature. _911388
650		0	_aIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literature. _911389
650		0	_aPostcolonialism in literature. _93927
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic. _911390
650		7	_aMUSIC / Ethnomusicology. _911391
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. _911392
942			_cBK
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