Emergency and the Indian English Novel - Memory, Culture and Politics

List of contents

Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Midnight’s Children: preserving memories for “the amnesiac nation” 3. Safeguarding democracy in The Great Indian Novel 4. Family ties: nepotism and corruption in Rich Like Us 5. The Repressive State Apparatus in Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance 6. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

About the author

Raita Merivirta is an Endeavour Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is one of the authors of Frontiers of Screen History: Imagining European Borders in Cinema.

Summary

This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event that prompted the writing of several notable novels attempting to preserve the silenced and fading memory of its human rights violations and suspension of democracy.

Additional text

Raita Merivirta’s The Emergency and the Indian English Novel is a significant contribution to the study of Indian English fiction. It persuaded me to rethink some of my ideas about a group of novels I thought I knew well.
—Ralph Crane, Professor of English, University of Tasmania, Australia

Product details

• Authors: Raita Merivirta
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367728717
• ISBN: 978-0-367-72871-7
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Historiography, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, India, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, HISTORY / Asia / South / General