Family Fictions and World Making - Irish and Indian Womens Writing in the Contemporary Era

This monograph is the first book-length comparative study of family novels from Ireland and India.

List of contents

Introduction

1. Marriage and the Big House: Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane



2. Youth and the Bildungsroman: Mahasweta Devi and Jennifer Johnston



3. Globalization and Fiction: Kiran Desai



4. The Celtic Tiger Novel: Anne Enright

Conclusion

About the author

Sreya Chatterjee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston. She specializes in global Anglophone, postcolonial literatures, and women’s writing with emphasis on core-periphery relationships in women’s fiction from Ireland and India. She has published on diverse topics such as Dalit autobiography in Comparative Literature Studies (2016), and representations of Naxalism in literature in Setu (2017). Most recently, her essay on the Irish playwright Brian Friel appeared in History, Imperialism, Critique: New Essays in World Literature (Routledge, 2018).

Summary

This monograph is the first book-length comparative study of family novels from Ireland and India.

Product details

• Authors: Sreya Chatterjee
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367745219
• ISBN: 978-0-367-74521-9
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: postcolonial literature