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200 10$aR. K. Narayan /$fJohn Thieme
210  1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2013.
210  4$dİ2007
215   $a1 online resource (249 pages) $cdigital file(s)
225 1 $aContemporary world writers
225  0$aContemporary world writers
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-7190-5927-5 
311   $a0-7190-5926-7 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; 1 Contexts and intertexts; 2 Early novels; 3 Middle-period novels: Mr Sampath to Waiting for the Mahatma; 4 Middle-period novels: The Guide to The Painter of Signs; 5 Late novels; 6 Critical overview and conclusion; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
330   $aR.K. Narayan's reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of "authentic" Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its non-Indian intertexts. The study also considers the effect that Narayan's writing for overseas publication had on novels such as Swami and Friends, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi.Narayan's imaginary 
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606   $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic$2bisach
606   $aIndia$2thema
607   $aIndia$xIn literature
610   $aIndian writing.
610   $aIndianness.
610   $aMalgudi.
610   $aR. K. Narayan.
610   $acultural geography.
610   $afiction.
610   $afounding figures.
610   $ainescapability of change.
610   $amodernity.
610   $anon-Indian intertexts.
615  7$aLiterature
615  7$aLiterary Studies: Post-Colonial Literature
615  7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic
615  7$aIndia
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