Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Identities, Social Creativity, Cultural Regeneration and Planetary Realizations

By Ananta Kumar Giri

Book Overview

Part One: Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Self, Social Creativity and Reconstitution of Identities.- Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Ethnicity, Socio-Cultural Regeneration and Planetary Realizations.- Earth and World: Roots and Routes.- First and Second Nature.- Cosmopoesis: Navigating the Strangeness of Planetary Realizations.- Understanding "Roots and Routes" from a Post-Kantian Tradition of Critique.- Transversal Communication and Boundaries of Identification.- Deconstructing and Reconstructing Identity: A Transformational Transcontinental Journey.- There is a Thread That You Follow: Identity, Journey and Destiny.- Part Two: Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: New Possibilities with Philosophy, History, Anthropology and Literature.- Reconciling the Self with the Other: An Existentialist Perspective On the Management of Ethnic Conflicts in Africa.- Migration, Myth and History: A Cross-Border Case Study.- From the danger of the routes to the alleged certainty about the roots: The journey to India from the early 18th to the late 19th century.- Indigeneity, Cultural Memory and Hybrid Identity: Politics of 'Belonging' among Zomi- Chin-Kuki People of India- Myanmar Borderlands.- Rethinking Postcolonial Identity: Caught in the Spiral of Violence.- In Search of Territory: Women's Existential Traverse through Varied Routes.- Making a commonsense over roots and routes in a time of emotional turmoil: The Marwaris and the nationalist use of Kunti's suffering self to construct the imagery of an idealised Indian womanhood.- Crossing the Border: A Postcolonial Discourse of Double Consciousness and Multiple Solidarities with reference to the texts Brick Lane and The Mistress of Spices.- Roots and Routes: The Novels of Su Tamilselvi and Kanmani Gunasekaran.- The Roots and Routes of Mourning: Performing Craft and Community in Migrant Cultures in India.- Cinematic Representation of Disability from Pity to Human Rights in India: Investigating the Changing Roots and Routes.- Transnational Communities: The Quest for Development and South-South Connections.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811571201
• ISBN13: 9789811571206
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"