Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature

Tracks the establishment of a national literature in English for independent India over the course of the twentieth century.

List of contents

Prologue; 1. Many a slip between the literary and the national; 2. R. K. Narayan and the fiction of the 'ordinary Indian'; 3. The in-between life of Mulk Raj Anand; 4. The Sahitya Akademi's showcasing of national literature; 5. Partition fiction and the 'birth' of national literature; Epilogue.

About the author

Rosemary Marangoly George is Associate Professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction (Cambridge, 1996) and editor of Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity (1998).

Product details

• Authors: Rosemary George, Rosemary Marangoly George, Rosemary Marangoly (University of Californ George, Rosemary Marangoly (University of California George, George Rosemary Marangoly
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9781107040007
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04000-7
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, India, Theology, Christian theology, Literary studies: general, Church history, Christian social thought & activity, Christian communities & monasticism