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Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture: Voices of the Marginalized

Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture: Voices of the Marginalized

Multani, Navleen

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Literary Studies in Social Justice

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032443685
ISBN13: 9781032443683
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 12 2023
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture: Voices of the Marginalized is a compendium of reflections on literary texts, politics of literature and culture. The book proffers ruminations on the pivotal role of constructive and positive resistance to reconstruct identities for meaningful human existence. The disciplinary power and dominance coerce the natural body to resist and yearn for freedom. One can establish unique identity by refusing to conform to pressures of society that deform the natural body. Dominant forces and oppressive structures evoke resistance that can range from 'polite demurral' to 'refusal'. Resistance comes from the 'will' that refuses to be controlled and governed. The 'refusal' of the ordinary illuminates ordinary lives/ bodies. Language and literary texts contain essential truths of such human existence. Words and imaginary worlds in literary works reveal truth and suggest possibilities for reconfiguring the order.

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