Background
Mishra, Vijay Chandra was born on May 4, 1945 in Suva, Fiji. Arrived in Australia, 1970. Son of Hari Karan and Lila Wati Mishra.
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The last two decades of the twentieth century have been marked by an immense revival of interest in the sublime. The sublime has been periodized (and "trans-periodized"), gendered, politicized, and even made into a commodity with specific social and economic effects. Yet past studies have used Western texts as their archives. This book dramatically shifts the focus by examining a major instance of a non-Western sublime: the Hindu Brahman. Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime examines European theories of the sublime, reads them off against contemporary critical uses of the term (notably by Lyotard and Paul de Man), and proposes that the Hindu Brahman constitutes an instance of one of the most fully developed of all sublimes. Mishra argues that the negative aesthetics of Brahman (and the largely decentered rhetoric of Hinduism generally) is part of this massive culture's use of the category of the sublime (and not the beautiful) to speak about a moment when the mind is confronted with an idea too large to be presented to consciousness. The book then examines the case of one of India's dominant literary genres--devotional verse--to show that once the category of the sublime is grasped (or seen as the undertheorized category of Indian aesthetics), it soon becomes clear that this massive genre is also predicated upon Brahman, the Absolute, as the sublime object of (impossible) desire. It is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of both the Indian sublime and Indian devotional verse.
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"Dark Side of the Dream" offers an assessment of Australian literature from a postcolonial perspective. Taking a post-bicentenary look at Australian culture and society through its literature, the authors argue that the shape of Australian society and literature has been profoundly affected by the processes that began when a colonizing society from Britain invaded Aboriginal Australia and dispossessed its people. "Australia" is not simply an autonomous White society; it also includes Aboriginal people and cultures and the problems of their relationship to the cultural practices of the colonizers. Nearly half of the book deals with Aboriginal texts, issues and themes, in recognition that this dimension of Australian literature is usually neglected. It also refers to recent work from Marxist, feminist and multicultural perspectives in order to analyze the "traditional" canon of Australian literature.
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India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to be the "temples of modern India," with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11 million people per day. In Bollywood Cinema, Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film production and reception is shaped by the desire for national community and a pan-Indian popular culture. Seeking to understand Bollywood according to its own narrative and aesthetic principles and in relation to a global film industry, he views Indian cinema through the dual methodologies of postcolonial studies and film theory. Mishra discusses classics such as Mother India (1957) and Devdas (1935) and recent films including Ram Lakhan (1989) and Khalnayak (1993), linking their form and content to broader issues of national identity, epic tradition, popular culture, history, and the implications of diaspora.
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researcher English literature educator
Mishra, Vijay Chandra was born on May 4, 1945 in Suva, Fiji. Arrived in Australia, 1970. Son of Hari Karan and Lila Wati Mishra.
Bachelor, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 1966. Diploma in teaching, Christchurch Teachers College, 1967. Bachelor with honors, Macquarie University, Australia, 1971.
Master of Arts with honors, Sydney (Australia) University, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, 1990.
Teacher Labasa College, Fiji, 1968-1969. Senior education officer Ministry of Education, Fiji, 1972-1973. Tutor English, Women's College-Sydney University, 1974-1975.
Lecturer English, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, 1976-1991, associate professor Australia, 1992-1997. Professor English, University Alberta, Canada, 1998-1999. Professor English and comparative literature Murdoch University, since 1999.
Visiting professor University California Santa Cruz, 1996.
(The last two decades of the twentieth century have been m...)
("Dark Side of the Dream" offers an assessment of Australi...)
(India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in...)
Married Nalini Singh, June 29, 1973. Children: Rohan, Paras.