South-Asian fiction in English [electronic resource] : contemporary transformations / Alex Tickell.
Tickell, Alex, author.
2016
PR9570.S64
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Title
South-Asian fiction in English [electronic resource] : contemporary transformations / Alex Tickell.
Author
Tickell, Alex, author.
ISBN
9781137403544 (electronic book)
1137403543 (electronic book)
9781137403537
1137403535
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages)
Call Number
PR9570.S64
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/954
Summary
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 middle-class narratives and popular genres; and literary response to terror and conflict. Edited and designed with researchers and students in mind, the book updates existing criticism and represents a readable guide to a dynamic, rapidly changing area of global literature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; Alex Tickell
PART I: REGIONAL FORMATIONS
1. Of Capitalism and Critique: 'Af-Pak' Fiction in the Wake of 9/11; Priyamvada Gopal
2. 'An Idea whose Time has Come': Indian Fiction in English after 1991; Alex Tickell
3. English-Language Fiction of Bangladesh; Cara Cilano
4. Sri Lankan Fiction in English 1994-2014; Ruvani Ranasinha
PART II: CONTEMPORARY TRANSFORMATIONS
5. Writing the Margins (in English): Notes from some South-Asian Cities; Stuti Khanna
6. Occupying Literary and Urban Space: Adiga, Authenticity and the Politics of Socio-economic Critique; Dominic Davies
7. Contemporary Indian Commercial Fiction in English; Suman Gupta
8. Genre Fiction of New India: Post-millennial Configurations of Crick Lit, Chick Lit and Crime Writing; E. Dawson Varughese
9. Vignettes of Change: A Discussion of Two Indian Graphic Novels; Pooja Sinha
10. The New Pastoral: Environmentalism and Conflict in Contemporary Writing from Kashmir; Ananya Jahanara Kabir
11. Narratives of Mourning in the Shadow of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act: State Violence and Contested Sovereignty in Contemporary South-Asian Fiction; Stephen Morton
12. Solidarity, Suffering and 'Divine Violence': Fictions of the Naxalite Insurgency; Pavan Kumar Malreddy
13. Writing South-Asian Diasporic Identity Anew; Maya Parmar
14. Minor Literature and the South-Asian Short Story; Neelam Srivastava
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