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Social Science Essays

Oppositional Aesthetics

Readings from a Hyphenated Space

by (author) Arun Mukherjee

Publisher
Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
Jan 1994
Category
Essays, Asian American
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920661420
    Publish Date
    Jan 1994
    List Price
    $24.95

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In these closely argued essays, taking examples from writing and film, Mukherjee considers the place of the third world person--both as artistic creator and as a subject of artistic endeavour--in the West.

This important work includes detailed and original considerations of the works of David Lean, Michael Ondaatje, MG Vassanji, Earle Birney, Rohinton Mistry, Neil Bissoondath, Dionne Brand, and numerous others.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Arun Prabha Mukherjee came to Canada from India in 1971 as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Toronto. An Associate Professor of English at York University in Toronto, she is the author of The Gospel of Wealth in the American Novel: The Rhetoric of Dreiser and His Contemporaries (1987), Towards an Aesthetic of Opposition: Essays on Literature, Criticism and Cultural Imperialism (1988), and numerous books and articles on postcolonial literatures, women's writing and critical theory. She has edited an anthology of writings by women of colour and aboriginal women entitled, Sharing Our Experience (1993), and contributed entries on several South Asian women writers to A Feminist Companion to Literature in English (1990).

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