{"product_id":"migrant-form-9781433105036","title":"Migrant Form","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMigrant Form\u003c\/i\u003e examines the works of James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, and Satyajit Ray for the anti-colonial arguments in their unsettled, and unsettling, aesthetics. Among the questions it engages are the following: What are the aesthetic moves through which art expresses its resistance to dominance and demands for conformity? How can we define anti-colonial aesthetics? How do these aesthetics manifest themselves in different media such as literature and film? Contending that Joyce inaugurates an anti-colonial aesthetics of reconstitution, the book mines such aesthetics in \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e to propose a formal model for postcolonialism. It also draws on that exercise to consider how Rushdie extends a play with reconfigured forms into an overt politics in two of his novels (\u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/i\u003e). Turning its attention to film, the book contests the common view of Ray as a gentle realist and examines a formal restlessness in Ra","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039510167895,"sku":"9781433105036","price":62.73,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433105036.jpg?v=1750943921","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/migrant-form-9781433105036","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}