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Modern Fiction Studies, 2007-10, Vol.53 (3), p.578-583
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press for the Department of English, Purdue University
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Maniratnam's popular films Bombay and Roja both are credited with subtle critiques of paternalistic nationalism and the power, as popular media, to reach infinitely more contingent selves than the English educated elites who read Rushdie, Mistry, and Ghosh, and yet it is Rushdie who seems to epitomize for Nagappan (in no uncritical fashion) the most positive consequences irony has to offer for the entire question of social suffering. Nagappan quotes Salman Rushdie's now infamous declaration that "the true Indian literature of the first postcolonial half century has been made in the language the British left behind" (a claim Amit Chaudhuri's groundbreaking anthology The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature has successfully contested), and then comments without any apparent irony: "In the anthology of fiction that Rushdie subsequently edited, Manto is the only non-Anglophone Indian writer to make an appearance" (126), a position Nagappan has clearly replicated in his own choice of texts.