The Emergency and the Indian English Novel: Memory, Culture and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367728717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 266 str.

Raita Merivirta

Opis

This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event that prompted the writing of several notable novels attempting to preserve the silenced and fading memory of its human rights violations and suspension of democracy.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Midnight’s Children: preserving memories for “the amnesiac nation” 3. Safeguarding democracy in The Great Indian Novel 4. Family ties: nepotism and corruption in Rich Like Us 5. The Repressive State Apparatus in Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance 6. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Raita Merivirta is an Endeavour Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is one of the authors of Frontiers of Screen History: Imagining European Borders in Cinema.