@article{1456850,
      recid = {1456850},
      author = {Mohanty, Satya P.},
      title = {Colonialism, modernity, and literature: a view from India  /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 261 pages).},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"Mohanty has assembled an innovative volume of essays  situated at the intersection of at least three  multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial and subaltern  theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a  South Asian and transnational focus; and the study of  "alternative" and "indigenous" modernities. Contributors  emphasize the strategies of resistance that are encoded in  third world literary texts; comparative literary analysis,  across cultures and regions - both within the "Global  South" and beyond; the forms of indigenous modernity that  preceded the colonial encounter, and thus provide  alternatives to the modernity that was imposed through the  colonial encounter with Europe; feminist perspectives in  traditional and contemporary literature; and "realist"  theoretical analyses of the epistemic implications of  literary forms. This definitive new work grounds the  political insights of postcolonial and subaltern theory in  close textual analysis, and rather than make general  pronouncements about "alternative modernities," it looks at  their specifically textual (literary and cultural)  manifestations"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1456850},
}