Troubled Testimonies: Terrorism and the English Novel in India

ISBN-13: 9780815396086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 196 str.

Meenakshi Bharat

Opis

This is the first full length study of the theme of terror in the sub-continental novel in English from India. It places contemporary Indian literature it in the world context and analyzes the fictional coverage of the spread of terrorism through the length and breadth of the country and its cultural fallout.

O autorze

Meenakshi Bharat is a writer, translator, reviewer and critic and teaches at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. She is President of the International Federation of Languages and Literatures, FILLM (UNESCO), and Treasurer of the Indian Association of Australian Studies. Her interests include cultural, postcolonial and English studies, children’s literature, women’s fiction and film studies – areas which she has extensively researched and written about. Among her publications are The Ultimate Colony (2003), Desert in Bloom (2004), Filming the Line of Control (2008), Rushdie the Novelist (2009), three volumes of Indo-Australian stories entitled Fear Factor: Terror Incognito (2010), Alien Shores: Tales of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (2012), A House for Mr Biswas: Critical Perspectives (2012), Only Connect: Technology and Us (2014), and a children’s book, Little Elephant Throws a Party (2014).