Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel - National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English

Informationen zum Autor Neelam Srivastava is lecturer in postcolonial literature at Newcastle University, UK. She has published on Indian literature in English and anti-colonial cinema, and has co-edited a special issue of the journal Interventions on colonial and postcolonial Italy. Zusammenfassung Explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and 90s. Examining writers such as Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, and Amitav Ghosh, this book investigates different aspects of postcolonial identity within the secular framework of the Anglophone novel. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter One: Theories of Secularism Chapter Two: Minority Identity in India: Midnight’s Children and A Suitable Boy Chapter Three: Secularism and Syncretism in The Shadow Lines and The Satanic Verses Chapter Four: Allegory and Realism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel Chapter Five: The Historical Event in the Postcolonial Indian Novel –I Chapter Six: The Historical Event in the Postcolonial Indian Novel – II Chapter Seven: Languages of the Nation in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy Chapter Eight: Cosmopolitanism and Globalization in Rushdie and Seth

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• Authors: Neelam Srivastava, Neelam (University of Newcastle Srivastava, Srivastava Neelam
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.09.2007
• EAN: 9780415402958
• ISBN: 978-0-415-40295-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures; Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature