Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature

ISBN-13: 9781316623077 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 298 str.

Rosemary Marangoly George

Opis

This book tracks the establishment of a national literature in English for independent India over the course of the twentieth century.

Recenzje

'This book offers an unusual yet convincing set of insights into the ways in which this language, mother-tongue of none but a handful of colonial and postcolonial elites in one of the world's most populous countries, still manages to exert and train its magnetic hold several decades after Independence.' Ananya Kabir, King's College London

Spis treści

Prologue; 1. Many a slip between the literary and the national; 2. R. K. Narayan and the fiction of the 'ordinary Indian'; 3. The in-between life of Mulk Raj Anand; 4. The Sahitya Akademi's showcasing of national literature; 5. Partition fiction and the 'birth' of national literature; Epilogue.