Overview
- Explains Mukherjee’s central concepts, models, and agenda of restructuring identities
- Analyzes topical questions and issues, and Mukherjee’s personal experiences and confrontations with them
- Relies in part on extended conversations with Bharati Mukherjee herself
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Fictional Work of Bharati Mukherjee
- Socio-Political Context of Mukherjee's Work
- The Tiger´s Daughter (1971)
- Goals of Mukherjee’s Work on Multiculturalism
- Methods of Mukherjee’s Work on Multiculturalism
- The Holder of the World (1993)
- Globalization and the Postmodern Condition
- Imaginal Politics
- Interdisciplinary Concept of Art.
- Exploration of Political Culturalism
- Massive Questioning of the Modernization Narrative
- Traditional Cultural Heritage
- Multitude of Local and Partial Identities
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Judith Hilber, Prof. Dott. lett. (American and English Literature and Culture), MA, born 1968, is a tenured College Professor of English at the Technological College (TFO Max Valier) Bolzano-Bozen-Bulsan, Italy. She studied English and American Language and Literature at the Universities of Innsbruck (Austria), Exeter (UK) and at the University of California at Berkeley. She has authored essays on postmodernity and cultural diversity, including an essay on Jacques Derrida’s concept of science and an article in the Open Journal of Philosophy (together with Roland Benedikter): The Postmodern Mind. A Re-Consideration of John Ashbery’s ‘Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror’ (1975) from the Viewpoint of an Interdisciplinary History of Ideas.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Art of Multiculturalism
Book Subtitle: Bharati Mukherjee’s Imaginal Politics for the Age of Global Migration
Authors: Roland Benedikter, Judith Hilber
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89668-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89667-0Published: 07 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89668-7Published: 28 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2212-6368
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6376
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 123
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Science, Sociology, general, Postmodern Philosophy