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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459872203321

Autore

Paranjape Makarand R. <1960->

Titolo

Another canon : Indian texts and traditions in English / / Makarand Paranjape [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2009

ISBN

1-283-37874-4

9786613378743

1-84331-804-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 173 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem Press India

Disciplina

820.954

Soggetti

Indic fiction (English) - 20th century - History and criticism

Canon (Literature) - History and criticism

English literature

India In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : situating the contemporary Indian (English) novel -- Conversations in Bloomsbury : T.S. Eliot through Indian eyes -- Comrade Kirillov : a critique of communism -- 'A horse and two goats' : language, culture and representation in R.K. Narayan's fiction -- The tale of an Indian education : the silver pilgrimage -- 'Clip joint' : modernity and its discontents -- Cultural and political allegory in Rich like us -- Towards redefining boundaries : the Indo-Canadian encounter in Days and nights in Calcutta -- The golden gate and the quest for self-realization -- Journey to Ithaca : an epistle on the fiction of the 1980s and 1990s -- Cuckold in Indian English fiction -- Stephanians and others : the tale of two novelists.

Sommario/riassunto

Both rigorous and readable, ‘Another Canon’ is an original contribution to the study of Indian English literature.