{"product_id":"migrant-form-anti-colonial-aesthetics-in-joyce-rushdie-and-ray-9781433105036","title":"Migrant Form: Anti-colonial Aesthetics in Joyce, Rushdie and Ray","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Maria C. Zamora | Gaurav Majumdar\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMigrant Form\u003c\/i\u003e examines the works of James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, and Satyajit Ray for the anti-colonial arguments in their unsettled, and unsettling, aesthetics. Among the questions it engages are the following: What are the aesthetic moves through which art expresses its resistance to dominance and demands for conformity? How can we define anti-colonial aesthetics? How do these aesthetics manifest themselves in different media such as literature and film? Contending that Joyce inaugurates an anti-colonial aesthetics of reconstitution, the book mines such aesthetics in \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e to propose a formal model for postcolonialism. It also draws on that exercise to consider how Rushdie extends a play with reconfigured forms into an overt politics in two of his novels (\u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/i\u003e). Turning its attention to film, the book contests the common view of Ray as a gentle realist and examines a formal restlessness in Ray's earlier work, \u003ci\u003eCharulata\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Wife\u003c\/i\u003e), before demonstrating how Ray stages his preference for restlessness in his final film, \u003ci\u003eAgantuk\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47608216027287,"sku":"9781433105036","price":7764.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781433105036.webp?v=1775051583","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/migrant-form-anti-colonial-aesthetics-in-joyce-rushdie-and-ray-9781433105036","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}