A History of the Indian Novel in English

Herausgeber: Anjaria, Ulka

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Produktbeschreibung

This History traces the development of the Indian novel from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up until the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 800g
• ISBN-13: 9781107079960
• ISBN-10: 1107079969
• Artikelnr.: 42582370

Inhaltsangabe

1. Beginnings: Rajmohan's Wife and the novel in India Supriya Chaudhuri; 2.
The epistemic work of literary realism: two novels from colonial India
Satya P. Mohanty; 3. 'Because novels are true, and histories are false':
Indian women writing fiction in English, 1860-1918 Barnita Bagchi; 4. When
the pen was a sword: the radical career of the progressive novel in India
Snehal Shingavi; 5. The road less travelled: modernity and Gandhianism in
the Indian English novel Rumina Sethi; 6. The modernist novel in India:
paradigms and practices Vinay Dharwadker; 7. Handcuffed to history:
partition and the Indian novel in English Ananya Jahanara Kabir; 8. Women,
reform, and nationalism in three novels of Muslim life Suvir Kaul; 9. Found
in translation: self, caste, and other in three modern texts Rashmi Sadana;
10. Emergency fictions Ayelet Ben-Yishai and Eitan Bar-Yosef; 11.
Cosmopolitanism and the sonic imaginary in Salman Rushdie Vijay Mishra; 12.
Postcolonial realism in the novels of Rohinton Mistry Eli Park Sorensen;
13. Far from the nation, closer to home: privacy, domesticity, and
regionalism in Indian English fiction Saikat Majumdar; 14. Ecologies of
intimacy: gender, sexuality, and environment in Indian fiction Kavita
Daiya; 15. 'Some uses of history': historiography, politics, and the Indian
novel Alex Tickell; 16. Virtue, virtuosity, and the virtual: experiments in
the contemporary Indian English novel Rukmini Bhaya Nair; 17. Of dystopias
and deliriums: the millennial novel in India Mrinalini Chakravorty; 18.
'Which colony? Which block?': Violence, (post-) colonial urban planning,
and the Indian novel Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; 19. Post-humanitarianism and
the Indian novel in English Shameem Black; 20. Chetan Bhagat: remaking the
novel in India Priya Joshi; 21. 'New India/n woman': agency and identity in
post-millennial chick lit E. Dawson Varughese; 22. The politics and art of
Indian English fantasy fiction Tabish Khair and Sébastien Doubinsky; 23.
The graphic novel in India Corey K. Creekmur; 24. 'Coming to a multiplex
near you': Indian fiction in English and new Bollywood cinema Sangita
Gopal; 25. Caste, complicity, and the contemporary Toral Jatin Gajarawala.