Title

Alif 18: Post-Colonial Discourse in South Asia

Authors

Ferial J. Ghazoul Professor, The American University in Cairo AUCFollow

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Department

English & Comparative Literature Department

Description

This issue of Alif explores a considerable variety of themes and problems that exist in contemporary South Asia, offering perspectives on poetry and fiction, popular culture and mythmaking, as well as the enduring resonance of Gandhian rhetoric and philosophy. Contributors confront environmental degradation and social injustice, post-colonial interpretations of Shakespeare, and the terrifying plague of AIDS, perhaps the first truly global epidemic. Despite the undeniably serious problems that afflict the people of South Asia, there is also much to celebrate after half a century of independence. There is a pervasive sense that the subcontinent has finally emerged from lingering shadows of the British Raj, asserting a new and ascendant identity, through art and literature, music, film, and popular culture.

ISBN

978-9774244865

Publication Date

1998

Publisher

Department of English and Comparative Literature, (AUC)

City

Cairo

Series

Alif: Journal of Contemporary Poetics

Recommended Citation

APA Citation

Ghazoul, F. J. (1998).Alif 18: Post-Colonial Discourse in South Asia. Department of English and Comparative Literature, (AUC).
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/174

MLA Citation

Ghazoul, Ferial J. Professor Alif 18: Post-Colonial Discourse in South Asia. Department of English and Comparative Literature, (AUC), 1998.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/174