Bruce King

Rewriting India

Eight Writers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the works of eight well-known writers-Arun Kolatkar, Keki N. Daruwalla, Amit Chaudhuri, Pankaj Mishra, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Tabish Khair, Susan Visvanathan, and Jeet Thayil-this book offers a reading of their works with a focus on themes, formal characteristics, and influences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780198099161
• ISBN-10: 0198099169
• Artikelnr.: 40696589

Autorenporträt

Bruce King is a well-known scholar of seventeenth-century English literature and Commonwealth literature. He has held lectureships at Bristol University and the University of Ibadan and professorships at universities in Scotland, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, France, Nigeria, and the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. ReWriting India
2. Arun Kolatkar: The Art of Seeing
3. Daruwalla: Parsi Outsider to Man of the World
4. Amit Chaudhuri: Places and Spaces
5. Pankaj Mishra's Travels
6. Upamanyu Chatterjee's Bengali Brahmins
7. Tabish Khair: Bihar to Aarhus
8. Visvanathan, Feminist Sociologist
9. Jeet Thayil 's Internationalism
10. Coda: A Million Indias Now/ Life is Here
End notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author