Narrative Gravity

This text explores the anti-foundationalist, anti-essentialist idea that our stories make us up, rather than we make up our stories. This is a foundational text for students of linguistics, philosophy and literary theory.

' Narrative Gravity is a truly international effort and a path breaking theorisation. It is going to inspire a legion of studies in the interpretation of narratives as cultural texts.' - Gurupdesh Singh in The Hindu

'Somewhat grandly, we need to learn how to hail Nair as one of the first to transform swords into plough-shares in the world of theory.' - Probal Dasgupta in The Journal of the Central Institute of the English and Foreign Languages

'[ Narrative Gravity] is a rich source of material for those interested in the relation between the study of mind and literary narrative. Its synthesis of technical discourse analysis with postcolonial theories of nationalism is novel and exciting.' - Jonathan Goodwin in Modernism/Modernity, Johns Hopkins University Press.

' Narrative Gravity is a truly international effort and a path breaking theorisation. It is going to inspire a legion of studies in the interpretation of narratives as cultural texts.' - Gurupdesh Singh in The Hindu

'Somewhat grandly, we need to learn how to hail Nair as one of the first to transform swords into plough-shares in the world of theory.' - Probal Dasgupta in The Journal of the Central Institute of the English and Foreign Languages

'[ Narrative Gravity] is a rich source of material for those interested in the relation between the study of mind and literary narrative. Its synthesis of technical discourse analysis with postcolonial theories of nationalism is novel and exciting.' - Jonathan Goodwin in Modernism/Modernity, Johns Hopkins University Press.

'This excellent text will be of much interest to those concerned with cognitive, anthropological and sociological approaches to the study of narrative.' - Chaoqun Xie in Language, Volume 80

Rukmini Bhaya Nair is Professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her previous publications include Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of Indifference (2002), Translation, Text and Theory: The Paradigm of India (ed: 2002) and Technobrat: Culture in a Cybernetic Classroom (1997).