LEADER 04320nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910453970103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-012-0654-6 010 $a1-4356-9531-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401206549 035 $a(CKB)1000000000720887 035 $a(EBL)556774 035 $a(OCoLC)714567406 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000161793 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12054135 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161793 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10200324 035 $a(PQKB)10521269 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556774 035 $a(OCoLC)302073389$z(OCoLC)649903090$z(OCoLC)714567406$z(OCoLC)764535761 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401206549 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556774 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380102 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000720887 100 $a20081114d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGenres of modernity$b[electronic resource] $econtemporary Indian novels in English /$fDirk Wiemann 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 225 1 $aInternationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;$v120 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2493-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-330) and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Encountering Indian Novels in English -- A Modernity That Is not One Situating Indian Writing in English -- Meanwhile, in Indian Standard Time Figuring Time and Nation -- Mythologising the Quotidian Shashi Tharoor?s The Great Indian Novel -- Typing the Minutes Vikram Chandra?s Red Earth and Pouring Rain -- Violent Separation ? Violent Fusion Kiran Nagarkar?s Cuckold -- Unimagined Communities Vikram Seth?s A Suitable Boy -- Two Versions of Sans Souci The Public Life of Domesticity -- Writing Home Into the Interior with Amit Chaudhuri -- The Aquatic Ideal The House as Archive in Amitav Ghosh?s Writings -- Desire and Domestic Friction Arundhati Roy?s The God of Small Things -- Still Postcolonial after All These Years Instead of a Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aGenres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the ongoing critical debate on modernity in India, and offers for the first time a rigorous attempt to hold together the stimulating impulses of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies and the boom of Indian fiction in English. In opposition to the entrenched narrative of modernity as a single, universally valid formation originating in the West, the theoretical and literary texts under discussion engage in a shared project of refiguring the present as a site of heterogeneous genres of modernity. The book traces these figurative efforts with particular attention to the treatment of two privileged metonymies of modernity: the issues of time and home in Indian fiction. Combining close readings of literary texts from Salman Rushdie to Kiran Nagarkar with a wide range of philosophical, sociological and historiographic reflections, Genres of Modernity is of interest not only for students of postcolonial literatures but for academics in the fields of Cultural Studies at large. 410 0$aInternationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;$v120. 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zIndia$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndic literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and history$zIndia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and history$zIndia$xHistory$y21st century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aModernism (Literature)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndic literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 676 $a809.91 700 $aWiemann$b Dirk$0906386 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453970103321 996 $aGenres of modernity$92060803 997 $aUNINA