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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461385603321

Autore

Superle Michelle <1974-, >

Titolo

Contemporary English-language Indian children's literature : representations of nation, culture, and the new Indian girl / / Michelle Superle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-15098-0

9786613150981

1-136-72087-1

0-203-81625-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Children's literature and culture ; ; 78

Disciplina

820.9/92820954

Soggetti

Children's literature, Indic (English) - History and criticism

Indic fiction (English) - Women authors - History and criticism

Children - Books and reading - India

Gender identity - India

Electronic books.

India In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Novels as Aspirational Literature; Chapter 1. The Development of Contemporary, English-language Indian Children's Novels; Chapter 2. Indian Women Writers: Imagining the New Indian Girl; Chapter 3. Imagining Unity in Diversity through Cooperation and Friendship; Chapter 4. Imagining and Performing the Indian Nation; Chapter 5. Imagining "Indianness"

Chapter 6. Imagining Identity in the Diaspora: Performinga "Masala" SelfChapter 7. Performing New Indian Girlhood; Conclusion: Old and New Boundaries; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national



children's literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically examines the ways Indian children's writers have represented childhood in relation to the Indian nation, Indian cultural identity, and Indian girlhood. From a framework of postcolonial and feminist theories, children's novels published between 1988 and 2008 in India are compared with those from the United Kingdom and North Am