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The Audacious Raconteur - Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India (Paperback)
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The Audacious Raconteur - Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India (Paperback)
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Loot Price R574
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Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined
in by forces of empire? Studying closely the oral narrations and
writings of four Indian authors in colonial India, The Audacious
Raconteur argues that even the most hegemonic circumstances cannot
suppress "audacious raconteurs": skilled storytellers who fashion
narrative spaces that allow themselves to remain sovereign and
beyond subjugation. By drawing attention to the vigorous orality,
maverick use of photography, literary ventriloquism, and
bilingualism in the narratives of these raconteurs, Leela Prasad
shows how the ideological bulwark of colonialism-formed by concepts
of colonial modernity, history, science, and native knowledge-is
dismantled. Audacious raconteurs wrest back meanings of religion,
culture, and history that are closer to their lived understandings.
The figure of the audacious raconteur does not only hover in an
archive but suffuses everyday life. Underlying these ideas,
Prasad's personal interactions with the narrators' descendants give
weight to her innovative argument that the audacious raconteur is a
necessary ethical and artistic figure in human experience. Thanks
to generous funding from Duke University, the ebook editions of
this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open
(cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
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