The Indian English Novel

The Indian English Novel
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 233
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780199544370
ISBN-13 : 0199544379
Rating : 4/5 (379 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Indian English Novel by : Priyamvada Gopal

Download or read book The Indian English Novel written by Priyamvada Gopal and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. 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.


The Indian English Novel Related Books

Writing India, Writing English
Language: en
Pages: 191
Authors: G. J. V. Prasad
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-21 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other.
The Indian English Novel
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Priyamvada Gopal
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English
Language: en
Pages: 485
Authors: Manju Jaidka
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-29 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked. Whereas at the turn of the 20th century, writers from India who chose to write
Contemporary Indian Writing in English between Global Fiction and Transmodern Historiography
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Christoph Senft
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-12 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This study offers a comprehensive overview of Indian writing in English in the 21st century. Through ten exemplary analyses in which canonical authors stand nex
In Another Country
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Priya Joshi
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Asking what Indian readers chose to read and why, In Another Country shows how readers of the English novel transformed the literary and cultural influences of