A Phoenix Called Resistance

Locating resistance in the very act of writing, this article explores the intellectual’s role as an interrogator and the reader’s through the act of responsive reading, enabling a connection across the passage of time. It seeks to free resistance from the confines of postcolonial discourse and to place it in the interaction between the individual and contemporary socio‐political constructs. Analysis focuses on Girish Karnad’s Talé‐Danda, while Raja Rao’s novel Kanthapura, Hanif Kureishi’s story “My Son the Fanatic” and other narratives illustrate the argument that resistance is integral to writing. The article concludes by showing how fantasy, myth and history are used as resistance strategies to generate counter‐discourses to hegemonic structures

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Fantasy · Hegemony · Literature · Media studies · Mythology · Narrative · Phoenix · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture · History · Law