EAN: 9781433105036

MIGRANT FORM - GAURAV MAJUMDAR GEBUNDEN

Migrant Form 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 Ulysses and Finnegans Wake 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 (Midnight¿s Children and The
Satanic Verses). 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  Charulata (The Lonely
Wife)  before demonstrating how Ray stages his preference for restlessness in his final film 
Agantuk (The Stranger).

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