Studies in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
Author: Amar Nath Dwivedi
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 380
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Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
Author: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Published: 2015-02-04
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9004292608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book starts with a consideration of a 1997 issue of the New Yorker that celebrated fifty years of Indian independence, and goes on to explore the development of a pattern of performance and performativity in contemporary Indian fiction in English (Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Vikram Chandra). Such fiction, which constructs identity through performative acts, is built around a nomadic understanding of the self and implies an evolution of narrative language towards performativity whereby the text itself becomes nomadic. A comparison with theatrical performance (Peter Brook’s Mahabharata and Girish Karnad’s ‘theatre of roots’) serves to support the argument that in both theatre and fiction the concepts of performance and performativity transform classical Indian mythic poetics. In the mythic symbiosis of performance and storytelling in Indian tradition within a cyclical pattern of estrangement from and return to the motherland and/or its traditions, myth becomes a liberating space of consciousness, where rigid categories and boundaries are transcended.
Genres of Modernity
Author: Dirk Wiemann
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9042024933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the ongoing critical debate on modernity in India, and offers for the first time a rigorous attempt to hold together the stimulating impulses of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies and the boom of Indian fiction in English." "Combining close readings of literary texts from Salman Rushdie to Kiran Nagarkar with a wide range of philosophical, sociological and historiographic reflections, Genres of Modernity is of interest not only for students of postcolonial literatures but for academics in the fields of Cultural Studies at large."--BOOK JACKET.
The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature
Author: Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2004-11-01
Total Pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9781417709403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChaudhuri's extravagant and discerning collection unfurls the full diversity of Indian writing from the 1850s to the present in English, and in elegant new translations from Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu. Among the 38 authors represented are contemporary superstars such as Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Pankaj Mishra.
Myth and History in Contemporary Indian Novel in English
Author: A. Sudhakar Rao
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9788171569113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMyth-History Combine Marks The Ruling Motive Of The Contemporary Indian Novel In English.In Amitav Ghosh S The Circle Of Reason, Reason Makes A Full Circle And Is Subjected To Subversion Towards The End With A Post-Modern Ambivalence.In The Great Indian Novel, Shashi Tharoor Is Given To Gigantism Of History And Makes Great Political Personages Parade On The Dice Game Of National Politics, As A Part Of Post-Colonial Discourse. Salman Rushdie S Midnight S Children Is An Enabling Text . The Text Synchronises The Individual History With National History Lending It A Universal Significance.The Texts Seek To Picture The Socio-Political Situation Of Post-Independence India With A Post-Modern Urgency.
Indian English Novel in the Nineties
Author: Sheo Bhushan Shukla
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9788176252690
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Studies in Modern Indian Fiction in English
Author: Haydn M. Williams
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Published: 1973
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary Indian Fiction in English
Author: Avadhesh K. Singh
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers presented at a seminar on "Critical Appraisal of Post-Independence Indian Fiction in English," organized by Department of English, Saurashtra University, in Feb. 1991.
Reading New India
Author: E. Dawson Varughese
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-02-14
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1441136231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading New India is an insightful exploration of contemporary Indian writing in English. Exploring the work of such writers as Aravind Adiga (author of the Man-Booker Prize winning White Tiger), Usha K.R. and Taseer, the book looks at how the 'new' India has been recreated and defined in an English Language literature that is now reaching a global audience. The book describes how Indian fiction has moved beyond notions of 'postcolonial' writing to reflect an increasingly confident and diverse cultures. Reading New India covers such topics as: - Representation of the city: Mumbai and Bangalore - Chick Lit to Crick Lit - Call centre dramas and corporate lives - Crime novels and Bharati narratives - Graphic novels Including a chronological time-line of major social, cultural and political reforms, biographies of the major authors covered, further reading and a glossary of Hindi terms, this book is an essential guide for students of contemporary world literature and postcolonial writing.
Indian Genre Fiction
Author: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018-07-06
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0429850905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially science fiction/fantasy have slowly made their way into university curricula and consideration by literary critics in India and the West. However, there has been no substantial study of genre fiction in the Indian languages, least of all from a comparative perspective. This volume, with contributions from leading national and international scholars, addresses this lacuna in critical scholarship and provides an overview of diverse genre fictions. Using methods from literary analysis, book history and Indian aesthetic theories, the volume throws light on the variety of contexts in which genre literature is read, activated and used, from political debates surrounding national and regional identities to caste and class conflicts. It shows that Indian genre fiction (including pulp fiction, comics and graphic novels) transmutes across languages, time periods, in translation and through publication processes. While the book focuses on contemporary postcolonial genre literature production, it also draws connections to individual, centuries-long literary traditions of genre literature in the Indian subcontinent. Further, it traces contested hierarchies within these languages as well as current trends in genre fiction criticism. Lucid and comprehensive, this book will be of great interest to academics, students, practitioners, literary critics and historians in the fields of postcolonialism, genre studies, global genre fiction, media and popular culture, South Asian literature, Indian literature, detective fiction, science fiction, romance, crime fiction, horror, mythology, graphic novels, comparative literature and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to the informed general reader.
