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    Espousing the Strange and the Familiar: Vikram Seth’s Two Lives

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    When Vikram Seth undertakes to write the biography of his German-trained dentist uncle and his Berlin-born Jewish aunt who both look upon him as their son during his exile in London, he is far from imagining the complexities that this personal journey into the coexistence of the foreign and the familiar in his family will unravel. The confrontation between the Same and the Other on the world scene in the form of imperialism, nazism, holocaust and the unresolved conflict between Israel and Palestine constitutes the background to his book. His masterfully told tale of two survivors of a violent century holds lessons of peace for the more dangerous century in which we live

    Antonia Navarro-Tejero, Gender and Caste in the Anglophone Indian Novels of Arundhati Roy and Githa Hariharan, Feminist Issues in Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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    While it has become quite common place to talk about world fiction, internationalized English literature and literature without borders to refer to new literatures written in English, the question of critical reception of such literary works in spaces which fall outside the purview of Anglo-American cultural brokerage is yet to be examined. Antonia Navarro-Tejero’s book is indeed a sign of the specific dialogue to come between Indian writing in English and Spanish readership, as Susi Tharu re..

    Three Tsunami Narratives

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    The ancient Tamil epic Silappatikaram describes the flourishing portal city of Puhar and Manimekalai tells the story of how it was engulfed by the sea. The Sri Lankan chronicles Thupavamsa and Mahavamsa speak of another tsunami that was to have swallowed the kingdom of Kelani Tissa. The brave princess Vihara Mahadevi appeased the anger of nature that was intended for her father who had ill-treated a Buddhist monk by sacrificing herself. Surprisingly she survived. Almost two thousand years later, a daughter of the Island survives the tsunami of 2004 while tragically losing her parents, her husband and two sons in Wave (2013) by Sonali Deraniyagala. Deraniyagala’s story about coping with loss and grief and surviving shuttles between two Islands – England and Sri Lanka. The love of Sri Lanka surfaces in the humanitarian approach of Dr. Philippa Hawley, a British physician who had performed her internship in Sri Lanka and published There’s No Sea in Salford in 2013. The doctor-narrator Penny tries to re-establish contact with Kiri de Souza who was working as a nurse in the hospital where she did her internship in Sri Lanka and had married a Tamil doctor and settled in England. A story of liberation from cancer and domestic violence ensues that is enlarged and translated into a story of solidarity with the vulnerable in Sri Lanka. Minoli Salgado’s A Little Dust in the Eyes (2014) evokes the close relationship between Renu and Savi, two cousins separated by civil war. During the trip to Sri Lanka from England undertaken to come to grips with her childhood, Savi is not able to retrieve anything but is helplessly swept away in the fatal swell of the sea. The aim of this paper is to first identify the type of narratives that insiders and outsiders choose to write when addressing the tsunami, then analyze what these tsunami narratives tell us about gender, family, ethnic, and race relations in times of personal, political and natural catastrophes. This paper finally explores how a pathway to peace is found across the geography of pain in these intimations of mortality.L'ancienne Ă©popĂ©e tamoule Silappatikaram Ă©voque la ville portuaire prospĂšre de Puhar et Manimekalai mentionne la vague mortelle qui l'avait engloutie. Les chroniques sri lankaises Thupavamsa et Mahavamsa parlent d'une autre vague qui devait avaler le royaume de Kelani Tissa. La brave princesse Vihara Mahadevi apaisĂąt la colĂšre de la nature destinĂ©e Ă  son pĂšre qui avait maltraitĂ© un moine bouddhiste en se sacrifiant. Étonnamment, elle a survĂ©cu. PrĂšs de deux mille ans plus tard, une fille de l'Ăźle survit au tsunami de 2004 alors qu'elle perdait tragiquement ses parents, son mari et ses deux fils dans Wave (2013), un rĂ©cit de Sonali Deraniyagala, oĂč l’auteur raconte comment elle tente de faire face Ă  la perte, au deuil et au vent-et-vient entre deux Ăźles - Angleterre et Sri Lanka – et de survivre. L'amour du Sri Lanka transparaĂźt dans l'approche humanitaire du Dr Philippa Hawley, un mĂ©decin qui a effectuĂ© son stage au Sri Lanka, dans son roman There’s No Sea in Salford (2013). La mĂ©decin-narratrice Penny essaie de rĂ©tablir le contact avec Kiri de Souza qui travaillait comme infirmiĂšre Ă  l'hĂŽpital oĂč elle avait fait son stage, qui a ensuite Ă©pousĂ© un mĂ©decin tamoul et s'est installĂ©e en Angleterre. Une histoire de libĂ©ration du cancer et de la violence domestique s'ensuit et se traduit par un rĂ©cit de solidaritĂ© avec les personnes vulnĂ©rables au Sri Lanka. A Little Dust in the Eyes de Minoli Salgado (2014) Ă©voque la relation Ă©troite entre Renu et Savi, deux cousines sĂ©parĂ©es par la guerre civile. Au cours de ce voyage au Sri Lanka entrepris en vue de se rĂ©concilier avec son enfance, Savi n'est pas en mesure de rĂ©cupĂ©rer quoi que ce soit et est balayĂ©e dans la houle mortifĂšre de la mer. L'objectif de cette Ă©tude est d'abord d'identifier le type de rĂ©cit que choisissent les auteures pour Ă©crire le tsunami (avec un point de vue interne ou externe), puis d'analyser ce que ces rĂ©cits du tsunami nous enseignent sur le genre, la famille, le groupe ethnique et les relations raciales en pĂ©riode de catastrophes personnelles, politiques et naturelles, et enfin de voir comment un chemin vers la paix se dessine Ă  travers la gĂ©ographie de la douleur dans ces intimations de la mortalitĂ©

    Peter Morey and Alex Tickell, Alternative Indias, Writing, Nation and Communalism

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    Postcolonial texts from India provoke such immediate and plethoric critical response both in India and abroad that when an engaging, well-structured and thought-provoking anthology of critical writing such as Alternative Indias falls into the hands of academics, they feel grateful for the intellectual enlightenment that it brings. Its eminently readable style, which nevertheless incorporates up-to-date critical theories, is indeed a plus. Harnessing the multifarious and monstrous cultural ene..

    Video introduction to issue 9

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    This video introduces the thematic contributions on ‘Reinventing the Sea’.La vidĂ©o prĂ©sente les contributions thĂ©matiques sur « RĂ©inventer la mer »

    Behind the Scenes: Foreword

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    This issue of the journal is devoted to the topic “Behind the Scenes” which guided the proceedings of the SEPC’s New Literatures Workshop at the 47th SAES Congress held in Avignon in May 2007. The idiom “behind the scenes” most obviously brings to mind what is hidden from the view of the audience. Though invisible, the backstage is an objective correlative of the multi-facetted reality and the orchestrated energy that go into the making of what is shown at the front and centre of the stage. T..

    Graphic Interlude: Reinventing the Sea

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    This graphic interlude features pictures illustrating this issue’s topic: the sea as symbol, metaphor and unit of analysis.Cet interlude graphique est composĂ© d’images qui illustrent le thĂšme de ce numĂ©ro : la mer comme symbole, mĂ©taphore et unitĂ© d’analyse

    Mani Ratnam, un cinéaste du Tamil Nadu à Bombay

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    Le 7 juillet 1896, Maurice Sestier, le cameraman des frÚres LumiÚre, projette des photographies animées à l'hÎtel Watson, à Bombay. TrÚs vite, l'Inde s'approprie cette invention occidentale et fait du cinéma une expression étonnante et vivante de ses multiples préoccupations, qu'elles soient culturelles, sociales ou politiques. Le réalisateur Mani Ratnam, s'inspirant notamment de la tradition du film noir américain, représente aujourd'hui un nouveau courant du septiÚme art indien.Ganapathy-doré Geetha. Mani Ratnam, un cinéaste du Tamil Nadu à Bombay. In: Hommes et Migrations, n°1196, mars 1996. Jeunesse et citoyenneté. pp. 56-61

    “Une subjectivitĂ© Ă  gĂ©omĂ©trie variable : la femme indienne chez Mira Nair”

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    Depuis 1979, la jeune rĂ©alisatrice indienne, Mira Nair essaie de donner le droit d’expression Ă  la femme indienne devant les spectateurs du monde rĂ©unis, en faisant des femmes indiennes les personnages centraux de ses films. La Camera d’Or attribuĂ©e Ă  Salaam Bombay au festival de Cannes en 1988 n’a fait que consacrer son talent. Dans cet article, nous essayerons d’analyser son travail en le situant parallĂšlement dans le contexte indien et dans l’arriĂšre-fond mondial. 1. Le statut de la femme ..

    European Anti-Colonialism

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