A History of the Indian Novel in English
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A History of the Indian Novel in English

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A History of the Indian Novel in English

About this book

A History of the Indian Novel in English traces the development of the Indian novel from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up until the present day. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes extensive essays that shed light on the legacy of English in Indian writing. Organized thematically, these essays examine how English was 'made Indian' by writers who used the language to address specifically Indian concerns. Such concerns revolved around the question of what it means to be modern as well as how the novel could be used for anti-colonial activism. By the 1980s, the Indian novel in English was a global phenomenon, and India is now the third largest publisher of English-language books. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History invites readers to question conventional accounts of India's literary history.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. List of figures
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Literary Pasts, Presents, and Futures
  10. 1 Beginnings: Rajmohan’s Wife and the Novel in India
  11. 2 The Epistemic Work of Literary Realism: Two Novels from Colonial India
  12. 3 “Because Novels Are True, and Histories Are False”: Indian Women Writing Fiction in English, 1860–1918
  13. 4 When the Pen Was a Sword: The Radical Career of the Progressive Novel in India
  14. 5 The Road Less Traveled: Modernity and Gandhianism in the Indian English Novel
  15. 6 The Modernist Novel in India: Paradigms and Practices
  16. 7 “Handcuffed to History”: Partition and the Indian Novel in English
  17. 8 Women, Reform, and Nationalism in Three Novels of Muslim Life
  18. 9 Found in Translation: Self, Caste, and Other in Three Modern Texts
  19. 10 Emergency Fictions
  20. 11 Cosmopolitanism and the Sonic Imaginary in Salman Rushdie
  21. 12 Postcolonial Realism in the Novels of Rohinton Mistry
  22. 13 Far from the Nation, Closer to Home: Privacy, Domesticity, and Regionalism in Indian English Fiction
  23. 14 Ecologies of Intimacy: Gender, Sexuality, and Environment in Indian Fiction
  24. 15 Some Uses of History: Historiography, Politics, and the Indian Novel
  25. 16 Virtue, Virtuosity, and the Virtual: Experiments in the Contemporary Indian English Novel
  26. 17 Of Dystopias and Deliriums: The Millennial Novel in India
  27. 18 “Which Colony? Which Block?”: Violence, (Post-)Colonial Urban Planning, and the Indian Novel
  28. 19 Post-Humanitarianism and the Indian Novel in English
  29. 20 Chetan Bhagat: Remaking the Novel in India
  30. 21 “New India/n Woman”: Agency and Identity in Post-Millennial Chick Lit
  31. 22 The Politics and Art of Indian English Fantasy Fiction
  32. 23 The Indian Graphic Novel
  33. 24 “Coming to a Multiplex Near You”: Indian Fiction in English and New Bollywood Cinema
  34. 25 Caste, Complicity, and the Contemporary
  35. Works Cited
  36. Index