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The Indian English Novel
The Indian English Novel
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Description
It is often claimed that unlike the British novel or the novel in indigenous Indian languages, Anglophone fiction in India has no genealogy of its own. Interrogating this received idea, Priyamvada Gopal shows how the English-language or Anglophone Indian novel is a heterogeneous body of fiction in which certain dominant trends and recurrent themes are, nevertheless, discernible. It is a genre that has been distinguished from its inception by a preoccupation with both history and nation as thesecome together to shape what scholars have termed 'the idea of India'. Structured around themes such as 'Gandhi and Fiction', 'The Bombay Novel', and 'The Novel of Partition', this study traces lines of influence across significant literary works and situates individual writers and texts in theirhistorical context. Its emergence out of the colonial encounter and nation-formation has impelled the Anglophone novel to return repeatedly to the question: 'What is India?' In the most significant works of Anglophone fiction, 'India' emerges not just as a theme but as a point of debate, reflection, and contestation. Writers whose works are considered in their context include Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, RK Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Nayantara Sahgal, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, andVikram Seth.
Product details
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 234
- Release Date:
- 2009-04-15
- Publication Date:
- 2009-12-10
- Publisher:
- ACADEMIC
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 0199544387
- ISBN13:
- 9780199544387
- Weight:
- 369 g
- Height:
- 140 cm
- Width:
- 209 cm
- Thickness:
- 16 cm
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