Indian Popular Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Redefining the Canon
Redaktion: Chawla, Gitanjali; Mittal, Sangeeta

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Produktbeschreibung

This anthology attempts to explore and validate the nuances of Indian popular fiction. It uncovers its gratifying impulses and literary merit, to engage with it both synchronically and diachronically and to contextualise the popular in its socio-political and cultural contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000483710
• Artikelnr.: 62417214

Autorenporträt

Gitanjali Chawla, Folklorist, Researcher and Editor, is an Associate Professor of English at Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi, India with more than twenty-five years of teaching experience. She is the co-editor of three seminal anthologies, Cultures of the Indigenous: India and Beyond (2014), De-territorialising Diversities: Literatures of the Indigenous and Marginalised (2014) and Re-storying the Indigenous and the Popular Imaginary (2017). She is also the Secretary, FORTELL (Forum for Teahers of English Language and Literature) and has edited several issues of the journal, Fortell. Sangeeta Mittal is Associate Professor in the Department of English. She has over twenty-five years of experience in teaching English literature, with the Jacobean Age, Restoration Literature and the Romantics as her favourite areas.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Advaita Kala
Introduction
PART I- Popular Habitats: Changing Ethos
1. The Reader has Moved on. Long Live the Consumer! 2. Reading Mills and
Boon in India: From the
Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience 3. Indian Commercial Fiction:
Chetan Bhagat and the Politics of the Neoliberal Citizenry 4. The Use and
Abuse of 'Abuse' in the 'Popular'
PART II- Popular Whodunnit: India's Tryst with Sherlock
5. Papyrus to Celluloid: An Insight into the Oeuvre
of Bengali Detectives 6. Feluda's Rendezvous with Heirlooms and Tradition
7. From Detective to Vigilante: An Examination of the Vimal Series by
Surender Mohan Pathak
PART III- Popular Mythology: Revisitations and Retelling
8. Mytho-Nukes: The Indian Popular and the Nuclear Debate 9. Re-configuring
Sita as the Warrior of Mithila 10. The Palace of Illusions: Redefining the
Mahabharata in Popular Fiction Popular Vernacular: Identities and
Intersections 11. Sikh Periodicals and Popular Literature: Framing
Community Consciousness 12. Thakurmar Jhuli: A Study of the Changing
Bengali Society 13. Indian English Commercial Fiction and the Question of
Caste