On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and culture within the arts, even as it courted controversy and divided critical opinion.
This guide to Roy s ground-breaking novel offers:
an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The God of Small Things
a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present
a selection of new essays and...
On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker P...
This is an interdisciplinary study of representations of terrorism and political violence in the fiction and journalism of colonial India. It argues that exceptional violence was integral to colonial sovereignty and that the threat of violence mutually defined discursive relations between coloniser and colonised.
This is an interdisciplinary study of representations of terrorism and political violence in the fiction and journalism of colonial India. It argues t...
In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such as the 'Black Hole' of Calcutta, the anti-thug campaigns of the 1830s, the 1857 Rebellion, anti-colonial terrorism in Edwardian London and the Amritsar massacre in 1919, this timely book reveals how the terrorizing threat of violence mutually defined discursive relations between colonizer and colonized. Based on original research and drawing...
In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political...
This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and emergent forms such as the graphic novel, genre fiction and the short story. It also contextualizes some key 'transformative' aspects of recent fiction such as border and diaspora identities; new...
This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapt...
