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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780253103321

Autore

Joshi Priya

Titolo

In another country [[electronic resource] ] : colonialism, culture, and the English novel in India / / Priya Joshi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2002

ISBN

0-231-12585-2

0-231-50090-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

823/.809954

Soggetti

Indic fiction (English) - History and criticism

Anglo-Indian fiction - History and criticism

Books and reading - India - History

Fiction - Appreciation - India

Language and culture - India

Imperialism in literature

Postcolonialism - India

India In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of thesis (Ph. D)--Columbia University, 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-345) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part 1: Consuming Fiction -- Chapter 1. The Poetical Economy of Consumption -- Chapter 2. The Circulation of Fiction in Indian Libraries, ca. 1835-1901 -- Chapter 3. Readers Write Back: The Macmillan Colonial Library in India -- Part 2. Producing Fiction -- Chapter 4. By Way of Transition: Bankim's Will, or Indigenizing the Novel in India -- Chapter 5. Reforming the Novel: Krupa Satthianadhan, the Woman Who Did -- Chapter 6. The Exile at Home: Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi -- Chapter 7. The Other Modernism, or The Family Romance in English -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning



the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and production, In Another Country vividly explores a process by which first readers and then writers of the English novel indigenized the once imperial form and put it to their own uses. Asking what nineteenth-century Indian readers chose to read and why, Joshi shows how these readers transformed the literary and cultural influences of empire. By subsequently analyzing the eventual rise of the English novel in India, she further demonstrates how Indian novelists, from Krupa Satthianadhan to Salman Rushdie, took an alien form in an alien language and used it to address local needs. Taken together in this manner, reading and writing reveal the complex ways in which culture is continually translated and transformed in a colonial and postcolonial context.