Saikat Majumdar
The Enigma of Arrival: Modern India and Anglophone literature
- When
- Fri Feb 27, 2009
- Where
- The Commonwealth Club SF
- Time
- 11:15am
- Tags
- Literary Arts, Literary Arts Lectures
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Saikat Majumdar, Stanford University ProfessorModern India and its people are increasingly associated with a narrative of achievement and prosperity in the economic and cultural realms. State-of-the-art technology and award-winning literature are two of India's most dazzling ambassadors. Majumdar will provide a brief overview of the field of modern Indian-English literature and raise some questions: Is it possible today to see the phenomenon of Anglophone Indian literature as separate from the new image of growth that currently engulfs this nation? What is gained, and what is lost when an art form gets so closely wedded to themes of progress and achievement in the national and global public sphere?
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