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Satyajit Ray’s The Chess Players and Postcolonial Theory

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230509665

ISBN: 978-1-349-52353-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Sep 25, 2015

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Chapter 1The Discourse of Colonial Enterprise and Its Representation of the Other Through the Expanded Cultural Critique

Dube, Reena

Pages: 1 –40

[Within colonial capitalism it is not just wealth, raw materials, and trade balance that shifts from the periphery to the centre. This shift is preceded, accompanied, and followed by a powerful and pervasive discourse event. I name this discourse event “British colonial enterprise” and its binary...
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Chapter 2Childhood: Work, Play, and Shame Friendship in the Discourse of Enterprise

Dube, Reena

Pages: 41 –84

[This chapter examines the work/play thesis in the discourse of colonial enterprise in the Enlightenment narrative of Robinson Crusoe (1719), Italian neo-realism, postcolonial cinema, and Hollywood cinema. Through the inclusion of a Hollywood film, Penny Marshall’s Big (1988), this chapter...
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Chapter 3Towards a Theory of Subaltern and Nationalist Genres: The Post-1857 Lakhnavi Tall Tales and Their Nationalist Appropriation in Premchand’s “The Chess Players” (1924)

Dube, Reena

Pages: 85 –129

[Modern studies of Indian nationalism make frequent reference to the literary-cultural genres of Indian nationalism as sources or texts, yet the implicit assumption made by these scholars of nationalism is that one can gain access to nationalist literatures without theorizing the...
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Chapter 4Comic Representations of Indigenous Enterprise in Daniel Mann’s The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) and Satyajit Ray’s The Chess Players (1977)

Dube, Reena

Pages: 130 –168

[Cultural representations of non-European indigenous enterprise are dogged by the false necessity to prove that indigenous innovations and sciences are as efficacious and successful as Anglo-American technologies and colonial enterprises. This positivist project is doomed, indigenous enterprise...
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Chapter 5Refuting the Expanded Cultural Critique: The Construction of Wajid Ali Shah’s Alterity

Dube, Reena

Pages: 169 –198

[Like the Bengali landlord in Jalsaghar, Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, is an overinscribed figure in colonialist and nationalist historiography. He is the referent of all Lakhnavi tall tales. In main-stream postcolonial films, folk tales, and popular memory he is cited for the high...

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