The mysteries of Mumbai : terrorism and banality in sacred games
Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, this essay explores the affective and aesthetic consequences of violence and criminality in Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games. I begin by discussing the minor crimes to be found within its pages, before moving on...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1449992020-12-08T05:03:44Z The mysteries of Mumbai : terrorism and banality in sacred games Scott, Bede School of Humanities Humanities::Language::English Sacred Games Vikram Chandra Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, this essay explores the affective and aesthetic consequences of violence and criminality in Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games. I begin by discussing the minor crimes to be found within its pages, before moving on to address various instances of so-called exceptional criminality. The affective state that emerges out of this combination of the banal and the extraordinary, I argue, could best be described by invoking Sianne Ngai's notion of stuplimity, a conjunction of the stupefying and the sublime that ultimately infiltrates the very tissue of the narrative. 2020-12-08T05:03:44Z 2020-12-08T05:03:44Z 2019 Journal Article Scott, B. (2019). The mysteries of Mumbai : terrorism and banality in sacred games. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 65(2), 285-307. doi:10.1353/mfs.2019.0014 0026-7724 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144999 10.1353/mfs.2019.0014 2 65 285 307 en MFS Modern Fiction Studies © 2019 for the Purdue Research Foundation by Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. |
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Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, this essay explores the affective and aesthetic consequences of violence and criminality in Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games. I begin by discussing the minor crimes to be found within its pages, before moving on to address various instances of so-called exceptional criminality. The affective state that emerges out of this combination of the banal and the extraordinary, I argue, could best be described by invoking Sianne Ngai's notion of stuplimity, a conjunction of the stupefying and the sublime that ultimately infiltrates the very tissue of the narrative. |
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