City Fictions of the New India - Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship

About the author

Alex Tickell studied English at the University of Leeds, researching South Asian fiction for his PhD, and subsequently taught at the University of York. Tickell joined the Open University in 2011 and is Director of the OU's Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group. He focuses on conjunctions of literature, politics, and infrastructure in South Asian and Southeast Asian Anglophone writing, and he has received AHRC and Leverhulme Trust funding for his research. Tickell edited The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 10, covering South and Southeast Asia, and in 2022 co-curated the British Library's 'Chinese and British' exhibition.

Summary

This books adopts a parallel approach to literary and urban form to understand how contemporary Indian English fiction engages with the city as the exemplary site of the so-called 'New India'. A wide range of contemporary texts are discussed, including graphic novels, television crime series, and literary novels.

Product details

• Authors: Tickell , Alex Tickell, Alex (Professor of Global Literatures in Tickell, Tickell Alex
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2025
• EAN: 9780198921202
• ISBN: 978-0-19-892120-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Fiction companions, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Fiction-Related Items, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form