The Indian English Novel - Nation, History, and Narration

Zusatztext Gopal's text is a useful compendium, which especially deserves to be read and debated for the specific theorization of Anglophone Indian fiction it proposes. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book provides an informed and lively introduction to the Indian novel in English which is now a fixture on the international literary scene. It discusses the work of major writers including Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, RK Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Nayantara Sahgal, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Vikram Seth. Zusammenfassung This book provides an informed and lively introduction to the Indian novel in English which is now a fixture on the international literary scene. It discusses the work of major writers including Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, RK Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Nayantara Sahgal, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Vikram Seth.

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• Authors: Priyamvada Gopal, Priyamvada (Churchill College Gopal, Gopal Priyamvada
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2009
• EAN: 9780199544387
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954438-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures; Oxford Studies in Postcolonial; Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures; Oxford Studies in Postcolonial
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form