Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This book tracks the establishment of a national literature in English for independent India over the course of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung This book examines the establishment! during the twentieth century! of an Indian national literature. Through close examination of English-language fiction in particular! Rosemary Marangoly George shows how caste! gender and a focus on national principles have had a significant impact on the value attached to literary texts in India. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Rosemary Marangoly George, Rosemary Marangoly (University of Californ George, George Rosemary Marangoly
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781316623077
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62307-7
• No. of pages: 298
• 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