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Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy is the first book to draw
extensively from material in the Salman Rushdie archive at Emory
University to uncover the makings of the British-Indian writer's
modernist poetics. Simultaneously connecting Rushdie with radical
non-Western humanism and an essentially English-European
sensibility, and therefore questions about world literature, this
book argues that a true understanding of the writer lies in
uncovering his 'genesis of secrecy' through a close reading of his
archive. Topics and materials explored include unpublished novels,
plays and screenplays; the earlier versions and drafts of
Midnight's Children and its adaptations; understanding Islam and
The Satanic Verses; the influence of cinema; and Rushdie's turn to
earlier archives as the secret codes of modernism. Through careful
examination of Rushdie's archive, Vijay Mishra demonstrates how
Rushdie combines a radically new form of English with a familiarity
with the generic registers of Indian, Arabic and Persian literary
forms. Together, these present a contradictory orientalism that
defines Rushdie's own humanism within the parameters of world
literature.
How does one read a foundational postcolonial writer in English
with declared Indian subcontinent roots? This book looks at ways of
reading, and uncovering and recovering meanings, in postcolonial
writing in English through the works of Salman Rushdie. It uses
textual criticism and applied literary theory to resurrect the
underlying literary architecture of one of the world's most
controversial, celebrated and enigmatic authors. It sheds light
upon key aspects of Rushdie's craft and the literary influences
that contribute to his celebrated hybridity. It analyses how
Rushdie uses his exceptional mastery of European, Anglo-American,
Indian, Arabic and Persian literary and cultural forms to cultivate
a fresh register of English that expands Western literary
traditions. It also investigates an archival modernism that
characterizes the writings of Rushdie. Drawing on the hitherto
unexplored Rushdie Emory Archive, this book will be essential
reading for students of literature, especially South Asian writing,
postcolonial studies, cultural studies, linguistics and history.
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of
the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It
is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general.
Examining both the 'old' Indian diaspora of early capitalism,
following the abolition of slavery, and the 'new' diaspora linked
to movements of late capital, Mishra argues that a full
understanding of the Indian diaspora can only be achieved if
attention is paid to the particular locations of both the 'old' and
the 'new' in nation states. Applying a theoretical framework based
on trauma, mourning/impossible mourning, spectres, identity,
travel, translation, and recognition, Mishra uses the term
'imaginary' to refer to any ethnic enclave in a nation-state that
defines itself, consciously or unconsciously, as a group in
displacement. He examines the works of key writers, many now based
across the globe in Canada, Australia, America and the UK, - V.S.
Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, M.G. Vassanji, Shani Mootoo, Bharati
Mukherjee, David Dabydeen, Rohinton Mistry and Hanif Kureishi,
among them - to show how they exemplify both the diasporic
imaginary and the respective traumas of the 'old' and 'new' Indian
diasporas.
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic
Imaginary constitutes a major study of the literature and other
cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important
contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the
'old' Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition
of slavery, and the 'new' diaspora linked to movements of late
capital, Mishra argues that a full understanding of the Indian
diaspora can only be achieved if attention is paid to the
particular locations of both the 'old' and the 'new' in nation
states.
Applying a theoretical framework based on trauma,
mourning/impossible mourning, spectres, identity, travel,
translation, and recognition, Mishra uses the term 'imaginary' to
refer to any ethnic enclave in a nation-state that defines itself,
consciously or unconsciously, as a group in displacement. He
examines the works of key writers, many now based across the globe
in Canada, Australia, America and the UK, - V.S. Naipaul, Salman
Rushdie, M.G. Vassanji, Shani Mootoo, Bharati Mukherjee, David
Dabydeen, Rohinton Mistry and Hanif Kureishi, among them - to show
how they exemplify both the diasporic imaginary and the respective
traumas of the 'old' and 'new' Indian diasporas.
India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theatres are said to be the "temples of modern India", with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11 million people per day. In Bollywood Cinema, Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film production and reception is shaped by the desire for national community and a pan-Indian culture. Seeking to understand Bollywood according to its own narrative and aesthetic principles and in relation to a global film industry, he views Indian cinema through the dual methodologies of postcolonial studies and film theory. Mishra discusses classics such as Mother India (1957) and Devdas (1935) and recent films including Ram Lakhan (1989) and Khalnayak (1993), linking their form and content to broader issues of national identity, epic tradition, popular culture, history, and the implications of diaspora. Bollywood Cinema considers not only the impact of Indian filmmakers upon the world of cinema, but also how movie-going affects our sense of self and community.
India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theatres are said to be the "temples of modern India", with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11 million people per day. In Bollywood Cinema, Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film production and reception is shaped by the desire for national community and a pan-Indian culture. Seeking to understand Bollywood according to its own narrative and aesthetic principles and in relation to a global film industry, he views Indian cinema through the dual methodologies of postcolonial studies and film theory. Mishra discusses classics such as Mother India (1957) and Devdas (1935) and recent films including Ram Lakhan (1989) and Khalnayak (1993), linking their form and content to broader issues of national identity, epic tradition, popular culture, history, and the implications of diaspora. Bollywood Cinema considers not only the impact of Indian filmmakers upon the world of cinema, but also how movie-going affects our sense of self and community.
How does one read a foundational postcolonial writer in English
with declared Indian subcontinent roots? This book looks at ways of
reading, and uncovering and recovering meanings, in postcolonial
writing in English through the works of Salman Rushdie. It uses
textual criticism and applied literary theory to resurrect the
underlying literary architecture of one of the world's most
controversial, celebrated and enigmatic authors. It sheds light
upon key aspects of Rushdie's craft and the literary influences
that contribute to his celebrated hybridity. It analyses how
Rushdie uses his exceptional mastery of European, Anglo-American,
Indian, Arabic and Persian literary and cultural forms to cultivate
a fresh register of English that expands Western literary
traditions. It also investigates an archival modernism that
characterizes the writings of Rushdie. Drawing on the hitherto
unexplored Rushdie Emory Archive, this book will be essential
reading for students of literature, especially South Asian writing,
postcolonial studies, cultural studies, linguistics and history.
Nanotechnology-Based Approaches for Targeting and Delivery of Drugs
and Genes provides an overview of the important aspects of
nanomedicine in order to illustrate how to design and develop novel
and effective drug delivery systems using nanotechnology. The book
is organized into three sections, beginning with an introduction to
nanomedicine and its associated issues. Section two discusses the
latest technologies in nanomedicine, while the third section covers
future developments and challenges in the field. By focusing on the
design, synthesis, and application of a variety of nanocarriers in
drug and gene delivery, this book provides pharmaceutical and
materials science students, professors, clinical researchers, and
industry scientists with a valuable resource aimed at tackling the
challenges of delivering drugs and genes in a more targeted manner.
In the last five years, significant developments and applications
have been made within radar communications. Signal Processing for
Joint Radar-Communications delves into the recent advances within
the theory and applications of joint radar-communications (JRC) and
includes the challenges that are still faced today. Bringing
together newly written expert contributions from leading
researchers within the field of Joint Radar-Communications, the
book tackles key JRC signal processing challenges such as common
waveform design for both radar and communications systems, receiver
processing including interference mitigation methods, learning and
cognition, resource allocation, jamming and clutter, optimization
methods, and automotive JRC. It presents possible solutions to
these challenges and highlights some future research directions.
The goal of this book is to further contribute to the diffusion of
newly developed JRC tools into the radar and communications
communities and to illustrate recent successes in applying modern
signal processing theories to solving core problems in JRC. The
contributors present new results on algorithmic methods and
applications of JRC in diverse areas, which include autonomous
vehicles, waveform design, information theory, privacy, security,
beamforming, estimation theory, and sampling. This reflects the
increasing number of applications in signal processing and
communications. Research activities covered in the book include
recognizing and solving convex optimization problems that arise in
applications, deriving powerful algorithmic methods, utilizing the
theory of convex problems to characterize and gain insight into the
optimal solution and bounds on performance, developing techniques
for exploiting problem structure in interior-point methods for
large scale optimization, and convex relaxations of hard,
non-convex problems
Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy is the first book to draw
extensively from material in the Salman Rushdie archive at Emory
University to uncover the makings of the British-Indian writer's
modernist poetics. Simultaneously connecting Rushdie with radical
non-Western humanism and an essentially English-European
sensibility, and therefore questions about world literature, this
book argues that a true understanding of the writer lies in
uncovering his 'genesis of secrecy' through a close reading of his
archive. Topics and materials explored include unpublished novels,
plays and screenplays; the earlier versions and drafts of
Midnight's Children and its adaptations; understanding Islam and
The Satanic Verses; the influence of cinema; and Rushdie's turn to
earlier archives as the secret codes of modernism. Through careful
examination of Rushdie's archive, Vijay Mishra demonstrates how
Rushdie combines a radically new form of English with a familiarity
with the generic registers of Indian, Arabic and Persian literary
forms. Together, these present a contradictory orientalism that
defines Rushdie's own humanism within the parameters of world
literature.
This book brings together contributions from leading researchers
who are engaged in the research and development of next generation
cognitive abilities in radar engineering. It features recent
advances in the theory and applications of advanced Cognitive Radar
(CR) tools as well as examines emerging challenges. The chapters
include mathematical and computational methods to combat important
CR challenges as well as the applications of recent theories and
algorithms to various applied CR aspects. The book is intended to
be used as a supplementary text for first-level graduate courses on
radar theory and systems, radar signal processing, detection and
estimation theory, and array signal processing. The book can also
be used as a main textbook for upper-level graduate courses such as
advanced topics in electromagnetics, advanced topics in radar, rf
and communications, and contemporary topics in signal processing
and optimization.
Mishra (English, U. of Alberta) contributes to the current interest
in the sublime by looking at a major example of a non- western
version. He examines European theories of the sublime, reads them
off against contemporary critical uses of the term by such writers
as Loytard and Paul de Man, and prop
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