Genres of Emergency - Forms of Crisis and Continuity in Indian Writing in English

Genres of Emergency offers literary genre as a way to understand and negotiate the varied states of emergency and crisis that have become a fixture of our contemporary world, building on a critical study of the literature written during and about the State of Emergency declared by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (1975 - 1977).

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Englishwala Politics


• 2: Family First


• 3: Realism


• 4: Epic


• 5: Allegory


• 6: Thriller


• Conclusion: On Genre

About the author

Ayelet Ben-Yishai is Chair of the English Department at the University of Haifa. A comparatist by training (PhD, UC Berkeley) she also has a degree in law (LLB, Hebrew U). Her work informs and is informed by the intersections of law and literature and by postcolonial and narrative theory, in relation to the modern British novel, world literature, and the Indian novel. She has been an Honorary Fellow at the IRH at UW-Madison, a Fellow at the Cornell Society of Fellows, and a recipient of two ISF grants for her research on the postcolonial novel in India.

Summary

Genres of Emergency offers literary genre as a way to understand and negotiate the varied states of emergency and crisis that have become a fixture of our contemporary world, building on a critical study of the literature written during and about the State of Emergency declared by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (1975 - 1977).

Product details

• Authors: Ben Yishai, Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Ayelet (Chair Ben-Yishai, Ben-Yishai Ayelet
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9780192866196
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286619-6
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature