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Articles by Amit Chaudhuri
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Cosmopolitanism's Alien Face
in NLR 55, January-February 2009, pp. 89-106
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Literature , India
The interweaving of literary affinities and cross-cultural influences, occluded by postcolonialist discourse, that characterized a vanished cosmopolitan modernism. Amit Chaudhuri explores paradoxes of belonging and defamiliarization in Bloomsbury and Bombay.
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East as a Career
in NLR 40, July-August 2006, pp. 111-126
Subjects: Literature , India
Oriental orientalism? Amit Chaudhuri unravels assumptions in the charge, levelled at India’s anglophone writers, of exoticizing the Subcontinent for Western markets—and explores alternative strategies of estrangement that would disrupt conventional national narratives.
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