Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia

1. Introduction
J. Edward Mallot

Part I. The Limits of Memory

2. The City Beautiful: Remembering and Dismembering Chandigarh
J. Edward Mallot

3. I Didn’t Kill Gandhi: Memory and the Bollywood Assassin
J. Edward Mallot

4. A. Sivanandan, Romesh Gunesekera, and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Histories
J. Edward Mallot

Part II. The Texts of Memory

5. Salman Rushdie’s Alternative Historiographies
J. Edward Mallot

6. What Bodies Remember: Michael Ondaatje, Shauna Singh Baldwin, and Corporeal Testimony
J. Edward Mallot

7. “A Special Enchantment in Lines”: The Maps of Memory
J. Edward Mallot

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Literary History, Literary Theory, Asian Literature