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dc.contributor.authorPrasad, Leela
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-29T15:52:09Z
dc.date.available2023-03-29T15:52:09Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20230329_9781501752285_175
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62199
dc.description.abstractCan a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire? Studying closely the oral narrations and writings of four Indian authors in colonial India, The Audacious Raconteur argues that even the most hegemonic circumstances cannot suppress "audacious raconteurs": skilled storytellers who fashion narrative spaces that allow themselves to remain sovereign and beyond subjugation. By drawing attention to the vigorous orality, maverick use of photography, literary ventriloquism, and bilingualism in the narratives of these raconteurs, Leela Prasad shows how the ideological bulwark of colonialism—formed by concepts of colonial modernity, history, science, and native knowledge—is dismantled. Audacious raconteurs wrest back meanings of religion, culture, and history that are closer to their lived understandings. The figure of the audacious raconteur does not only hover in an archive but suffuses everyday life. Underlying these ideas, Prasad's personal interactions with the narrators' descendants give weight to her innovative argument that the audacious raconteur is a necessary ethical and artistic figure in human experience. Thanks to generous funding from Duke University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATX Other performing artsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.otherImperialism, colonial modernity, Storytelling/Narrative, Oral history, Native scholar
dc.titleThe Audacious Raconteur
dc.title.alternativeSovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.7298/29ve-da91
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407
oapen.relation.isFundedBy09983451-0fe9-4807-8ca3-58f502fd2b25
oapen.relation.isbn9781501752285
oapen.relation.isbn9781501752292
oapen.relation.isbn9781501752278
oapen.collectionToward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)
oapen.imprintCornell University Press
oapen.pages222
oapen.place.publicationIthaca
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