Bharati Mukherjee's imaginal politics for the age of global migration /
Roland Benedikter, Judith Hilber ; with a foreword by Chiara Bottici ; and a preface by Bo Stråth.
Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
[2018]
1 online resource
SpringerBriefs in sociology
The western global: lands of difference -- lands for building? -- Evolving the time-space through the hybridization of art : literature, architecture, "transformation design" and "complexity science" -- A 400-year-old legacy: the traditional locality and its interrelation with globalized "hybrid" frameworks -- Setting the example for imaginal politics through art: techniques and procedures to integrate Mukherjee's Indian legacy with western postmodernity -- Mukherjee's 20th century source: pop art of the 1960s. A similar inspiration 400 years after the Moghuls? -- Mukherjee and the future of multiculturalism as "imaginal politics."
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This book describes what an "art of multiculturalism" could be and how in turn multiculturalism could be conceived as a form of art. It focuses on the early and middle work of Indian-born U.S. writer Bharati Mukherjee, in particular on her understanding of the "fusion" of literature and painting as a tool to inspire the creation of a "new global society" by empowering minorities through fostering and multiplying "differences in unity"and "unities in difference". The book includes, in condensed ways, an explanation of Mukherjee' use of ancient Indian painting techniques for postmodern writing; and it provides a short introduction to the relation between multiculturalism, postmodernity and "imaginal politics."
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Art of multiculturalism.
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Mukherjee, Bharati.
Mukherjee, Bharati.
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.