Indian Popular Fiction (eBook, PDF)

New Genres, Novel Spaces
Redaktion: Srivastava, Prem Kumari; Sinha, Mona

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Produktbeschreibung

This book opens up experimental and novel spaces and genres beyond the traditional and the literary world of Indian Popular Fiction. It facilitates discussion on graphic novels, micro fiction, popular-entertainment and political satire on television and celluloid, and mythological readings against the backdrop of gender and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000482805
• Artikelnr.: 62486267

Autorenporträt

Prem Kumari Srivastava is Associate Professor of English at Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi. Her seminal work Leslie Fiedler: Critic, Provocateur, Pop Culture Guru (2014), McFarland & Inc. Publishers, North Carolina, USA is housed in 144 global libraries; her three volumes series (co-edited) Cultures of the Indigenous: Indian and Beyond (Vol.1), 2014, Deterritorialising Diversities: Literatures of the Indigenous and Marginalised (Vol. II), 2014, and Re-storying the Indigenous and the Popular Imaginary (Vol. III), 2017; and Spiritual Ecology and Sustainability: Practice and Confluence (co-edited) 2017, Authorspress, Delhi, display an overarching focus on gender, the popular and the indigenous, and spiritual ecology. Mona Sinha is Associate Professor of English at Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi, where she has been teaching for more than two decades. Some of her areas of academic interest are Indian Literature, Classical Literature, Translation Studies, Modern Literature, Media and Cultural Studies and innovative practices in language pedagogy. She has edited journals such as Creative Forum and FORTELL.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1: Dismantling Hierarchies 1. 'Popular' and 'Classic': Deconstructing
the Categories 2. Literary Fiction as Popular Fiction: Reading Jhumpa
Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies 3. Betwixt and Between: Giving the Middle
Its Due PART 2: Romancing the Celluloid 4. Bhojpuri Leisure: Popularity,
Profanity and Piracy 5. Feluda's Serialised and Celluloid Selves: A Tale of
Literariness and Patrilineal Legacies 6. The Popular 'Dexter': Its Heirs
and Impact on Indian Media PART 3: (Discoursing) Politics of the Popular
7. Graphic Novels and Delhi: Contested Spaces in the Popular 8. Political
Exceptions and the Imperatives of Popular Dissent: A Reading of I.S.
Jauhar's 1978 Emergency Spoof Nasbandi 9. Woman and Statecraft: Reading
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan's Novels in the Series 'Girls of the Mahabharata'
PART 4: Moving Beyond: Social Media and New Spaces 10. Interrogating Social
Media and Romance: The Case of Durjoy Datta 11. India's Tryst with Flash
Fiction: A Terribly Tiny Tale 12. Online Writer and the New Age Popular