Books written by Vijay Mishra
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Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire
... 263; in Dilwale Dulhania le Jayenge 252-7; in Kuch Kueh Hota Hai 260 Kala Bazar 97 KaHdasa 8, 148-9 Kama Sutra 100, ... 251, 253, 264; and desite 99-101; and Nargis 97, 141, 178; and the renouncer 6; as aureur 98—1 12; in Aag 101-3; ...
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Annotating Salman Rushdie: Reading the Postcolonial
Allakazoo, allakazam: SV 334; nonsense phrase, with alla(h)- as prefix, based on the comic-hero Captain Marvel's “Shazam”, uttering which transformed him into a superhero. Al-Lat: literally “The Goddess”, (cf. Allah meaning the God), ...
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What Was Multiculturalism?: A Critical Retrospect
A rather different and engagingly positive (but curiously similarly idealistic) reading of Australian multiculturalism is offered by Bob Hodge and John O'Carroll in Borderwork in Multicultural Australia. At the heart of the book is a ...
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The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary
Exploring the work of key writers from across the globe, this significant contribution to diaspora theory constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora.
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The Gothic Sublime
The Castle of Otranto , A Gothic Story ( with a new preface ) . London : William Bathoe , 1765 . ... The Castle of Otranto . Edited by Henry Morley . ... The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence . Forty - eight vols . Edited ...
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Nanotechnology-Based Approaches for Targeting and Delivery of Drugs and Genes
By focusing on the design, synthesis, and application of a variety of nanocarriers in drug and gene delivery, this book provides pharmaceutical and materials science students, professors, clinical researchers, and industry scientists with a ...
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Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind
A critical assessment of Australian literature in a multi-cultural context, with particular reference to Aboriginal, Marxist and feminist perspectives. Includes a bibliography and index.
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Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire
In Bollywood Cinema, Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film production and reception is shaped by the desire for national community and a pan-Indian popular culture.
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Rama's Banishment: A Centenary Tribute to the Fiji Indians, 1879-1979
Rama's Banishment: A Centenary Tribute to the Fiji Indians, 1879-1979
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Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature
... ants travelling in opposite directions , to and from their nest , perform without fail.9 Naipaul's description draws on Virgil's metaphor of the labour of Aeneas ' oarsmen ( in Virgil's the Aeneid ) as they depart Carthage : And when the ...
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The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary
... dayānā āīo nirmohīonirmohī choṛcale maṁjhdhār. . . Film, ofcourse, was also amajor artform that mediated between theIndian diaspora and India(Mishra 2002). Fijilal's friend Painais an inveterate film goer and fond of recalling the ...
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Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime: Lacan's Return to Freud
Combines Western theories of the sublime (from Longinus to Lyotard) with indigenous Indian modes of reading in order to construct a comprehensive theory of both the Indian sublime and Indian devotional verse.