Indian Popular Fiction: New Genres, Novel Spaces

ISBN-13: 9781032145587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str.

Prem Kumari Srivastava; Mona Sinha

Opis

This book opens up experimental and novel spaces and genres beyond the traditional and the literary world of Indian Popular Fiction. It facilitates discussion on graphic novels, micro fiction, popular-entertainment and political satire on television and celluloid, and mythological readings against the backdrop of gender and politics.

Spis treści

PART 1: Dismantling Hierarchies 1. ‘Popular’ and ‘Classic’: Deconstructing the Categories 2. Literary Fiction as Popular Fiction: Reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies 3. Betwixt and Between: Giving the Middle Its Due PART 2: Romancing the Celluloid 4. Bhojpuri Leisure: Popularity, Profanity and Piracy 5. Feluda’s Serialised and Celluloid Selves: A Tale of Literariness and Patrilineal Legacies 6. The Popular ‘Dexter’: Its Heirs and Impact on Indian Media PART 3: (Discoursing) Politics of the Popular 7. Graphic Novels and Delhi: Contested Spaces in the Popular 8. Political Exceptions and the Imperatives of Popular Dissent: A Reading of I.S. Jauhar’s 1978 Emergency Spoof Nasbandi 9. Woman and Statecraft: Reading Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan’s Novels in the Series ‘Girls of the Mahabharata’ PART 4: Moving Beyond: Social Media and New Spaces 10. Interrogating Social Media and Romance: The Case of Durjoy Datta 11. India’s Tryst with Flash Fiction: A Terribly Tiny Tale 12. Online Writer and the New Age Popular