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dc.contributor.author | Green, AJ | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-12T10:24:11Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-06-12T10:24:11Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020-05-16 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Green, A. (2020) ‘Moving world, moving voices: A discussion with Daljit Nagra’, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, in press, pp. 1 - 18. doi: 10.1177/0021989420911836. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0021-9894 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/18396 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © The Author(s) 2020. This interview explores a range of both emergent and persistent areas of interest in the work of Daljit Nagra. Nagra’s two latest books — Ramayana (2013) and British Museum (2017) — represent explorations of his interests in both “rootedness” — what it means to be connected or grounded in a cultural environment — and “route-edness” — what it means for cultures to travel and the impact of cultural journeying (Clifford, 1997). In both books he considers how cultures — both as individual and intertwined entities — in complex ways solidify and mutate; how they remain static and move. In this interview he explores his own shifting, layered, and sometimes uncomfortable relationship with diverse cultures, considering the extent to which and the means by which cultures “translate”. Underlining the inevitable clashes and dislocation such processes necessitate, via pluralism he identifies an essential desire for the meaningful connection of diverse cultures. Like the British Museum of the title of his most recent work, he sees the importance of his poetry as a project in human connectivity, asserting creative achievement, resilience, and value. In exploring these ideas, Nagra discusses the ways in which his work connects both to Indian culture in transition and translation and to canonical English Literature. This interview was conducted in Uxbridge, West London on 6 December 2018. | - |
dc.format.extent | 1 - 18 | - |
dc.format.medium | Print-Electronic | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_US |
dc.rights | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | - |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | - |
dc.subject | Daljit Nagra | en_US |
dc.subject | multiculturalism | en_US |
dc.subject | poetry | en_US |
dc.subject | English literature | en_US |
dc.subject | canonicity | en_US |
dc.subject | cultural transitions | en_US |
dc.title | Moving world, moving voices: a discussion with Daljit Nagra | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989420911836 | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Journal of Commonwealth Literature | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published online | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1741-6442 | - |
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