Indian Genre Fiction: Pasts and Future Histories

ISBN-13: 9780367479138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str.

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay; Aakriti Mandhwani; Anwesha Maity

Opis

This volume maps the breadth of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi, English), and nine genres for the first time. Using methods from literary analysis, book history, and Indian aesthetic theories, the volume examines the variety of contexts in which genre literature is read, activated and used, from political debates surrounding national and regional identities to caste and class conflicts within Indian genre fiction (including detective/crime fiction, science fiction/fantasy, pulp fiction, comics and graphic novels, romance, horror and mythology) in translation and through publication processes.

 

Spis treści

Introduction — Indian Genre Fiction: Languages, Literatures, Classifications PART I. Emergence of Distinctions 1. Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu 2. Homage to a ‘Magic-Writer’: The Mistrīz and Asrār Novels of Urdu 3. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Natural Calamities in 19th-Century Bengali Chapbooks 4. Explorers of Subversive Knowledge: The Science Fantasy of Leela Majumdar and Sukumar Ray PART II. Postcolonial Reassertions 5. Hearts and Homes: A Perspective on Women Writers in Hindi 6. Genre Fiction and Aesthetic Relish: Reading Rasa in Contemporary Times 7. Community Fiction: Mamang Dai’s The Legends of Pensam and Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone PART III. Genres in the 21st Century 8. Post-Millennial ‘Mythology-Inspired Fiction’ in English: The Market, the Genre, and the (Global) Reader 9. Expanding World of Indian English Fiction: The Mahabharata Retold in Krishna Udayasankar’s The Aryavarta Chronicles and Amruta Patil’s Adi Parva 10. When Bhimayana Enters the Classroom… 11. From the Colloquial to the ‘Literary’: Hindi Pulp’s Journey from the Streets to the Bookshelves