Debjani Ganguly: 2 books
This Thing Called the World
The Contemporary Novel as Global Form
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
In This Thing Called the World Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it. Ganguly contends that global literature coalesced into its current form in 1989, an event marked by the convergence of three major trends: the consolidation...
Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity
Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an institution of ranked, hereditary and occupational groups.
This book discusses the enigmatic persistence of caste in the lives of South Asians as...