Oxford History of the Novel in English - Volume 10: The Novel in South and South East Asia Since 1945

The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, and tendencies.

South and South East Asia has produced some of the most dynamic, experimental, and commercially successful English-language novels of the post-war period. This wide-ranging volume, which comprises specially commissioned chapters from critics working in the fields of postcolonial and global literature, covers key authors, national traditions, and major themes and genres, providing an unrivalled survey of the South and South East Asian anglophone novel.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 10. The Novel in South and South East Asia since 1945 employs a unique three-part structure covering South Asia, South East Asia, and 'cross-border' fictions and is the first work of its kind to provide a single comparative assessment of the novel across South and South East Asia, and in migrant lines of travel in and beyond these regions. Both an introduction and a scholarly resource, it covers internationally recognized novelists but also showcases forgotten, under-represented writers and their works. The volume provides comprehensive survey chapters on individual national traditions, comprising the anglophone novel of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Mainland China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Myanmar. Its historical and geographical reach takes in late colonial fictions, war-novels of Korea and Vietnam, and autobiographical fictions of the Chinese Cultural Revolution; its formal scope spans multi-volume historical epics, political fictions, and graphic novels. The development of the South and South East Asian novel in English is further contextualized in chapters on publishing and book history, and new forms of genre fiction, making this volume an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and general readers.

Sommario

• General Editor's Preface


• Introduction


• Part I: South Asia


• 1: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan: The Novel of India


• 2: Claire Chambers: The Novel of Pakistan


• 3: Ruvani Ranasinha: The Novel of Sri Lanka


• 4: Kaiser Haq: The Novel of Bangladesh


• 5: Abhijit Gupta: Publishing and the History of the Book in South Asia


• Themes and Genres


• 6: Antoinette Burton: End of Empire Histories in the post-1945 Novel


• 7: Tabish Khair: History and the South Asian Novel


• 8: Shuchi Kapila: Fiction and the Borderland: Partitions and Frontiers


• 9: Kavita Daiya: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family in South Asian Fiction


• 10: Kanishka Chowdhury: Globalization and the South Asian Novel


• 11: Sharae Deckard: Land, Water, Waste: Environment and Ecology in South Asian Fiction


• 12: Toral Gajarawala: Caste Logics: Categorization, Combination, and the Contemporary Novel


• 13: Priya Joshi: Genre Fiction in India


• 14: Charlotta Salmi: The Graphic Novel in South Asia


• Key Authors


• 15: G. J. V. Prasad: R. K. Narayan


• 16: Shirley Chew: Anita Desai


• 17: Florian Stadtler: Salman Rushdie


• 18: Chitra Sankaran: Amitav Ghosh


• Part II: South East Asia


• 19: Jeffrey Mather: The Novel of Mainland China


• 20: Elaine Yee Lin Ho: The Novel of Hong Kong


• 21: May Jurilla: The Novel of the Philippines


• 22: Andrew Hock Soon Ng: The Novel of Malaysia


• 23: Philip Holden: The Novel of Singapore


• 24: Pavan Kumar Malreddy: The Novel of Myanmar


• 25: Lily Rose Tope: Language Policy, Publishing, and Book History in South East Asia


• Themes and Genres


• 26: Andrew Biswell: Writing Imperial Decline in South East Asia


• 27: Sharmani Patricia Gabriel and Alex Tickell: History, Memory, and Cultural Identity in the Novel of South East Asia


• 28: Ismail Talib: Language in the Malaysian and Singaporean Novel in English


• 29: Alex Tickell: Life-Writing, Testimony, and Biographical Fiction


• 30: Derek C. Maus: Cold War Novels: Korea and Vietnam


• 31: Kelly Yin Nga Tse: Genre Fiction in South East Asia: Chick Lit and Crime Fiction


• 32: Cheng Tju Lim: The Graphic Novel in South East Asia


• Key Authors


• 33: Xiaojue Wang: Eileen Chang


• 34: Angelia Poon Mui Cheng: Timothy Mo


• 35: Maria Luisa Torres Reyes: F. Sionil José


• 36: Eddie Tay: K. S. Maniam and Tash Aw


• Part III: Cross-Border Fictions


• 37: Anastasia Valassopoulos: The Novel of the Middle East


• 38: Prem Poddar: The Indian Ocean Novel


• 39: Sudesh Mishra: Narrating the Global South Asian Diaspora

Info autore

Alex Tickell is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University and Director of the OU's Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group. He taught previously at the University of Leeds and the University of York. He specialises in the Anglophone literary histories of South Asia and South East Asia and conjunctions of literature and politics, and is the author of Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature: 1830 -1947 (Routledge: 2013). Dr Tickell also researches contemporary Indian fiction and has published a guide to Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (Routledge: 2007) and edited a collection, South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations (Palgrave 2016).

Riassunto

The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, and tendencies.

South and South East Asia has produced some of the most dynamic, experimental, and commercially successful English-language novels of the post-war period. This wide-ranging volume, which comprises specially commissioned chapters from critics working in the fields of postcolonial and global literature, covers key authors, national traditions, and major themes and genres, providing an unrivalled survey of the South and South East Asian anglophone novel.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 10. The Novel in South and South East Asia since 1945 employs a unique three-part structure covering South Asia, South East Asia, and 'cross-border' fictions and is the first work of its kind to provide a single comparative assessment of the novel across South and South East Asia, and in migrant lines of travel in and beyond these regions. Both an introduction and a scholarly resource, it covers internationally recognized novelists but also showcases forgotten, under-represented writers and their works. The volume provides comprehensive survey chapters on individual national traditions, comprising the anglophone novel of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Mainland China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Myanmar. Its historical and geographical reach takes in late colonial fictions, war-novels of Korea and Vietnam, and autobiographical fictions of the Chinese Cultural Revolution; its formal scope spans multi-volume historical epics, political fictions, and graphic novels. The development of the South and South East Asian novel in English is further contextualized in chapters on publishing and book history, and new forms of genre fiction, making this volume an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and general readers.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alex (Senior Lecturer in English Tickell
• Con la collaborazione di: Alex Tickell (Editore), Tickell Alex (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.03.2019
• EAN: 9780198745419
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874541-9
• Pagine: 688
• Serie: Oxford History of the Novel in English
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)