Bharati Mukherjee’s “The Management of Grief” and the Politics of Mourning in the Aftermath of the Air India Bombing

In: Literature for Our Times
Author:
Fred Ribkoff
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505–522
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401207393_032

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Literature for Our Times

Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Series:  Cross/Cultures, Volume: 145
Cover Literature for Our Times
E-Book ISBN:
9789401207393
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2012
Preliminary Material
The Commonwealth Legacy: Towards a Decentred Reading of World Literature
Global Literary Refractions: Reading Pascale Casanova’s The World Republic of Letters in the Post-Cold War Era
Not (Yet) Speaking to Each Other: The Politics of Speech in Jamaica Kincaid’s Postcolonialism
Frailty and Feeling: Literature for Our Times
Spaces of Desire: A Pleasant Séjour in Robert Kroetsch’s The Hornbooks of Rita K
From Indomania to Indophobia: Thomas De Quincey’s Providential Orientalism
Rebels of Empire: The Human Idiom in Ruskin Bond’s A Flight of Pigeons
A Multi-Centred Globe: Translation as the Language of Languages
Ngũgĩ’s Wizard of the Crow and the Edifice Complex
Re-membering the Dismembered: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Language, Resistance, and Identity-Formation
Scars of Language in Translation: The ‘Itchy’ Poetics of Jam Ismail
English in the Languages of Cultural Encounters
The Missing Link: Transculturation, Hybridity, and/or Transculturality?
Drickie Potter and the Annihilating Sea: Reading Jamaica Kincaid’s Waves of Nothingness
Bhangra Boomerangs: Re-Imagining Apna Punjab
“Trading Places in the Promised Lands”: Indian Pilgrimage Paradigms in Postcolonial Travel Narratives
Writing as Healing: Fijiindians – The Twice Banished?
To Veil or Not to Veil: Muslim Women Writers Speak Their Rights
Gendered Bodies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
Bearing Witness: Gender, Apocalypse, and History
Literature of the Land: An Ethos for These Times
Masculindians: The Violence and Voyeurism of Male Sibling Relationships in Recent First-Nations Fiction
From Noble Savage to Brave New Warrior?: Constructions of a Māori Tradition of Warfare
A Native Clearing Revisited: Positioning Philippine Literature
Asia’s Christian-Latin Nation?: Postcolonial Reconfigurations in the Literature of the Philippines
A Dalit Among Dalits: The Angst of Tamil Dalit Women
Tamil Dalit Literature: Some Riddles
Categories of Caste, Class, and Telugu Dalit Literature
Plotting Hogwarts: Situating the School Ideologically and Culturally
Streets and Transformation in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and “Stuart”
Bharati Mukherjee’s “The Management of Grief” and the Politics of Mourning in the Aftermath of the Air India Bombing
Affect and the Ethics of Reading ‘Post-Conflict’ Memoirs: Revisiting Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull and Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Literature as Arduous Conversation: Terrorism and Racial Politics in Hanif Kureishi’s Borderline, “My Son the Fanatic,” and The Black Album
“Witness is what you must bear”: Politics in Margaret Atwood’s Poetry
Collaterally Damaged: Youth in a Post-9/11 World
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Index

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