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In these closely argued essays, taking examples from writing and film, Arun Prabha Mukherjee considers the place of the third world person - both as artistic creator and as a subject of artistic eneavour - in the West. Works of non-mainstream, immigrant artists, she urges, shoul be understood on their own terms. In particular, established Western aethetics, especially the idea of the Universal and its applications, even within the domains of the postcolonial and feminist criticism, are demonstrated as instances of domination and disregard third world experiences and particularities. On the other hand, key canonical texts in the West, blind to these details of the third world lives they portray, are shown to be distortional and even offensive. 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.

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• Full title: Oppositional Aesthetics: Readings from a Hyphenated Space
• Author: Arun Mukherjee
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780920661420
• ISBN: 0920661424
• ID: 11581165
• Publisher: TSAR PUBN
• Weight: 376 g
• Dimensions: 221 × 147 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: January 1994

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