Adorno and the Architects of Late Style in India: Aesthetic Form after the Twentieth-​century Novel

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
Introduction Lineages of lateness: Adorno and the postcolonial
	Notes
Part I Terminal beginnings
	1 National allegory in late style: Culture, terror and bodily disburdenment in Tagore’s Four Chapters
		The historical plot of catastrophe: Four Chapters in the context of Tagore’s swadeshi fictions
		Tagore, allegorist of an opening
		“The New Age beckons from within you”: Ageing in Four Chapters
			What Atin saw
			Abhash: A pretext for friendship
		Elective affinities: Fate, sacrifice and myth across Benjamin and Tagore
			Bhumika, or the myth of sacrifice
		The art of disburdenment, or, how to disappear
		Notes
	2 Nation, transmodernity and the unimaginable community: The place of failure in Mulk Raj Anand’s Across the Black Waters
		Adorno, parataxis and failure: The question of subaltern speech
		Speaking across: Scenes from Across the Black Waters
			Dedication
			Bildung
			Address
			Reading, reciting and dress rehearsing
		Voicing failure: Landscape and writing
			Subaltern crossings
		Notes
Part II Formations of the contemporary
	3 “Tis love of earth that he instils”: English without soil in Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music
		Absolute value: Situating the politics of musical equality
		The plot and romance of canonicity in Seth’s “Western Classical” fiction
		“In your city, I am adrift”: Landscape, travelling geographies and the realism effect
		Postcoloniality after place: the politics and practice of listening
		Triangulating distances: Said, Seth and Adorno
		Post-European fictions of home
		Notes
	4 The art of disappearance: Reading Adorno in the house of Dayanita Singh
		Legacies of the real: Contextualising the interior
			Towards a method: Reflection, reversal and “the semblance of things” in Adorno’s Kierkegaard
		Reflection
		Reversal
		After cultural history
		“Mirror and mourning”
		Velocities of “national culture”: Disintegration
		Ghosts in the machine
		Notes
Part III Conclusion
	5 Automatic intimacies
		Notes
	Coda
		Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index