Indian English Novel

Gopal, Priyamvada:
The Indian English novel : nation, history and narration / Priyamvada Gopal. - Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2009. - VIII, 209 S. : Kt. - (Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures)
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Beschreibung
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 these come 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 their historical 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, and Vikram Seth. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Timeline. ix
Maps. xxi
Introduction: Ideas of India. 1
1. Making English India. 11
2. Ethnography, Gender, and Nation. 25
3. 'Mahatma-Magic': Gandhi and Literary India. 43
4. Writing Partition. 69
5. Midnight's Legacies: Two Epic Novels of Nation. 90
6. Bombay and the Novel. 116
7. Family Matters: Domesticity and Gender. 139
8. Imagining'Origins': The Literature of Migration. 160
Conclusion: The Contemporary Scene. 177
Notes. 188
Bibliography. 193
Index. 205

Autorin
Priyamvada Gopal is University Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Churchill College. She is the author of Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence (2005) and has written widely for both academic publications and the print media on literature, culture, and politics in South Asia and Britain. Profile page.

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