Afternoon Raag

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681378051
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afternoon Raag written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the UK’s Encore Award for best second novel, a lyrical story of a Bengali student at Oxford University who is caught in the complications of a love triangle. Afternoon Raag is a book of branching and overlapping stories, a book that like memory moves unpredictably in time. In it, a nameless first-person narrator looks back at his student days in Oxford, a period of loneliness and discovery when his affections were torn between two women, and to the summer vacations that took him from England to Bombay, where his parents lived, and later to Calcutta, where he was born. Descriptions of Oxford’s green lawns and drab dorms, of friends and classes and the relentless drizzle, sit beside Bombay street scenes and recollections of the teacher, now dead, from whom the narrator and his mother learned music. Afternoon Raag is a book about the uncertainty of youth and the strange inevitability of growing up. Its images are wonderfully vivid; its rhythms elastic and entrancing. Throughout it is haunted by the spirit of the music teacher, the master singer who gives shape to the elusive and annihilating passage of time.

Author : Sheo Bhushan Shukla
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176254465
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Novels of Amit Chaudhuri written by Sheo Bhushan Shukla and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amit Chaudhuri, b. 1962, Indo-English novelist; contributed articles.

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681378043
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afternoon Raag written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the UK’s Encore Award for best second novel, a lyrical story of a Bengali student at Oxford University who is caught in the complications of a love triangle. Afternoon Raag is a book of branching and overlapping stories, a book that like memory moves unpredictably in time. In it, a nameless first-person narrator looks back at his student days in Oxford, a period of loneliness and discovery when his affections were torn between two women, and to the summer vacations that took him from England to Bombay, where his parents lived, and later to Calcutta, where he was born. Descriptions of Oxford’s green lawns and drab dorms, of friends and classes and the relentless drizzle, sit beside Bombay street scenes and recollections of the teacher, now dead, from whom the narrator and his mother learned music. Afternoon Raag is a book about the uncertainty of youth and the strange inevitability of growing up. Its images are wonder fully vivid; its rhythms elastic and entrancing. Throughout it is haunted by the spirit of the music teacher, the master singer who gives shape to the elusive and annihilating passage of time.

Author : Ranjan Ghosh
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761834649
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book (in)fusion Approach written by Ranjan Ghosh and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (In)fusion theory challenges efforts to see theory as inhibiting by presenting an approach that is innovative, eclectic, and subtle in order to draw out competing and constellating ideas and opinions. This collected volume of essays examines (In)fusion theory and demonstrates how the theory can be applied to the reading of various works of Indian English novelists.

Author : Sheo Bhushan Shukla
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176252690
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian English Novel in the Nineties written by Sheo Bhushan Shukla and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Author : Christin Hoene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317679164
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Identity in Postcolonial British South-Asian Literature written by Christin Hoene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag, Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album, and Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with reference to other texts, such as E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and Vikram Seth's An Equal Music. The analyzed novels feature different kinds of music, from Indian classical to non-classical traditions, and from Western classical music to pop music and rock 'n' roll. Music is depicted as a cultural artifact and as a purely aestheticized art form at the same time. As a cultural artifact, music derives meaning from its socio-cultural context of production and serves as a frame of reference to explore postcolonial identities on their own terms. As purely aesthetic art, music escapes its contextual meaning. The transgressive qualities of music render it capable of expressing identities irrespective of origin and politics of location. Thereby, music in the novels marks a very productive space to imagine the postcolonial nation and to rewrite imperial history, to express the cultural hybridity of characters in-between nations, to analyze the state of the nation and life in the multicultural diaspora of contemporary Great Britain, and to explore the ramifications of cultural globalization versus cultural imperialism. It will be a useful research and teaching tool for those interested in postcolonial literature, music studies, cultural studies, contemporary literature and South-Asian literature.

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 168137479X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding the Raga written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography An autobiographical exploration of the role and meaning of music in our world by one of India's greatest living authors, himself a vocalist and performer. Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music style, who has recorded his experimental compositions extensively and performed around the world. A turning point in his life took place when, as a lonely teenager living in a high-rise in Bombay, far from his family’s native Calcutta, he began, contrary to all his prior inclinations, to study Indian classical music. Finding the Raga chronicles that transformation and how it has continued to affect and transform not only how Chaudhuri listens to and makes music but how he listens to and thinks about the world at large. Offering a highly personal introduction to Indian music, the book is also a meditation on the differences between Indian and Western music and art-making as well as the ways they converge in a modernism that Chaudhuri reframes not as a twentieth-century Western art movement but as a fundamental mode of aesthetic response, at once immemorial and extraterritorial. Finding the Raga combines memoir, practical and cultural criticism, and philosophical reflection with the same individuality and flair that Chaudhuri demonstrates throughout a uniquely wide-ranging, challenging, and enthralling body of work.

Author : Dr. Laxmikant Govindrao Bahegavankar
Publisher : Lulu Publication
ISBN 13 : 1008935131
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amit Chaudhuri Novelist and Musician written by Dr. Laxmikant Govindrao Bahegavankar and published by Lulu Publication. This book was released on 2021-06-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian English Literature today has its own place in the world literature. Begun as an imitation of British literature, it has now its own identity and a large number of readers all over the world. Indian English Novel, to be more specific, has reached to a height where it is seen on the same line of world novels. It has gone through many evolutions such as style, subject matter, point of view, color, language etc. Indian English novel today boasts its newness through the hands of Amit Chaudhary. He is one of the contemporary Indian English novelists whose work leaves an impression of being new in its presentation, in style and in subject matter. The present research is an attempt to explore Amit Chaudhary’s novels as new novels. This study undertakes five novels by him in order to see in what sense or the extent to which they are ‘new novels’.

Author : Stella Borg Barthet
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042027649
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sea for Encounters written by Stella Borg Barthet and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains general essays on: the relevance of 'Commonwealth' literature; the treatment of Dalits in literature and culture; the teaching of African literature in the UK; 'sharing places' and Drum magazine in South Africa; black British book covers as primers for cultural contact; Christianity, imperialism, and conversion; Orang Pendek and Papuans in colonial Indonesia; Carnival and drama in the anglophone Caribbean; issues of choice between the Maltese language and Its Others; and patterns of interaction between married couples in Malta. As well as these, there are essays providing close readings of works by the following authors: Chinua Achebe, André Aciman, Diran Adebayo, Monica Ali, Edward Atiyah, Margaret Atwood, Murray Bail, Peter Carey, Amit Chaudhuri, Austin Clarke, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Antjie Krog, Hanif Kureishi, Naguib Mahfouz, David Malouf, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Ahdaf Soueif, Yvonne Vera. Contributors: Jogamaya Bayer, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Monica Bungaro, Judith Lütge Coulli, Robert Cribb, Natasha Distiller, Evelyne Hanquart-Turner, Marie Herbillon, Tuomas Huttunen, Gen'ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Jondot, Karen King-Aribisala, Ursula Kluwick, Dorothy Lane, Ben Lebdai, Lourdes López-Ropero, Amin Malak, Daniel Massa, Concepción Mengibar-Rico, Susanne Reichl, Brigitte Scheer-Schaezler, Lydia Sciriha, Jamie S. Scott, Andrea Strolz, Peter O. Stummer, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Clare Thake Vassallo.

Author : Sadakat Aman Khan
Publisher : Mr. Harmonium
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 10 Thaats in Harmonium written by Sadakat Aman Khan and published by Mr. Harmonium. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well explained Book about 10 Thaats of Hindustani Classical Music and How to play 10 thaats in Harmonium are written in this book with correct finger patterns and clear diagrams.