LEADER 03566nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910151740803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-92557-4 010 $a9786610925575 010 $a0-88920-749-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713568 035 $a(EBL)685704 035 $a(OCoLC)753479520 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278279 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11205354 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278279 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10246059 035 $a(PQKB)11554491 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC685704 035 $a(CaPaEBR)402516 035 $a(CaBNvSL)gtp00521589 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3246409 035 $a(OCoLC)794702242 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17975 035 $a(PPN)250535807 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL685704 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10147341 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713568 100 $a20011212d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCounterrealism and Indo-Anglian fiction$b[electronic resource] /$fChelva Kanaganayakam 210 $aWaterloo, Ont. $cWilfrid Laurier University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-55458-062-5 311 $a0-88920-398-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references: p. 199-208. 327 $aCounterrealism as alternative literary history -- The fabulator of Malgudi: R.K. Narayan -- H. Hatterr and sauce anglaise: G.V. Desani -- Slipper dragging and the silent piano: Anita Desai -- The art of enchantment: Zulfikar Ghose -- Fashioning new fables: Suniti Namjoshi -- Fabulating the real: Salmon Rushdie -- Midnight's grandchildren. 330 $aWhat do R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi, and Salman Rushdie have in common? They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural nationalists for not writing in native languages, they nonetheless present a critique of the historical and cultural conditions that promoted and sustained writing in English. They also have in common a counterrealist aesthetic that asks its own social, political, and textual questions. This book is about the need to look at the tradition of Indian writing in English from the perspective of counterrealism. The departure from the conventions of mimetic writing not only challenges the limits of realism but also enables Indo-Anglian authors to access formative areas of colonial experience. Kanaganayakam analyzes the fiction of writers who work in this vibrant Indo-Anglian tradition and demonstrates patterns of continuity and change during the last five decades. Each chapter draws attention to what is distinctive about the artifice in each author while pointing to the features that connect them. The book concludes with a study of contemporary writing and its commitment to non-mimetic forms. 606 $aIndic fiction (English)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndic literature (English)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIndic fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndic literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.91409954 700 $aKanaganayakam$b C$g(Chelvanayakam),$f1952-$01047842 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151740803321 996 $aCounterrealism and Indo-Anglian fiction$92475730 997 $aUNINA