Bøker i South Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture Studies-serien

In Cosmopolitanism in the Indian English Novel, Mostafa Azizpour Shoobie argues that select novels by Indian writers in English largely present a kind of micro-cosmopolitanism which preserves nation as a primary site for social and cultural formation while opening it up to critique.

The book takes an interdisciplinary approach in deconstructing nation-branding exercises in neoliberal India, utilizing the fetish as a critical device to demonstrate how postcolonial nation-building can become colonizing.

Vimsatika ranks among the world's most misunderstood texts but Kumarila's historic refutation allows Vimsatika to be read in its own text-historical context. This compelling, radically revolutionary re-reading of Vimsatika delineates a hermeneutic of humor indispensable to discerning its medicinal message.

A Passage to Globalism: Globalization, Identities, and South Asian Diasporic Fiction in Britain responds to the need for a critical framework that is able to address the relationships between identities and contemporary globality. This book asks what role does South Asian diasporic fiction play in constructing narratives of globalization?