[Extract] The 1980s witnessed a second coming for the Indian novel in English. Its messiah seems to have been Salman Rushdie. The appearance of Midnight's Children (1981) brought about a renaissance in Indian writing in English which has outdone that of the 1930s. Its influence, acknowledged...
The present introductory chapter basically deals with a background study of the origin and development of Indian novel in English. The study has been set to explore issues of 'culture' and 'transnationality' as reflected in the contemporary Indian novels in English with special attention to the ...
Kim and Midnight’s Children are attempts at the great Indian novel, the novel that aspires to accommodate the whole of Indian reality, and what allows such aspirations is their Englishness. When Saleem Sinai first contacts the children of midnight, he finds that they think in languages he ca...
Chakravarty establishes the hybridity of this genre in which "the historical novel and the colonial adventure novel, romantic orientalism, historiography and the pictorial cultivation of the oriental picturesque intersect" (92). Mutiny fiction progresses from an immersion in Anglo-India to "the text ...
The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. It is often claimed that unlike the British novel or the novel in indigen...
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Ever since the advent of novel in the mid-nineteenth century colonial India, Indian writers have been re-appropriating official versions of history to serv... HK Bhabha - Routledge 被引量: 271发表: 1998年 Western romance fiction as English‐language media in postcolonial India In this study I...
Novel approaches to identify the role of subclinical risk factors at granular levels for rapid loss of kidney function include the ability to measure the variability of kidney function over time, and to detect occult acute decrements in kidney function [16]. We will test the prevailing paradigm ...
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This chapter explores how the design choices behind two sets of post-millennial book covers represent the Indian woman in the genre of Indian women’s writing in English (IWWE) as well as in her ‘supposed’ Indian culture(s). The analysis therefore is of society’s engagement with the por...