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The Indian English novel [[electronic resource] ] : nation, history, and narration / / Priyamvada Gopal
| The Indian English novel [[electronic resource] ] : nation, history, and narration / / Priyamvada Gopal |
| Autore | Gopal Priyamvada <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 209 p. : maps |
| Disciplina | 823.909891411 |
| Collana | Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English |
| Soggetto topico |
Indic fiction (English) - 20th century - History and criticism
Indic fiction (English) - 21st century - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9786611998745
1-281-99874-5 0-19-156763-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454366103321 |
Gopal Priyamvada <1968->
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Indian English novel [[electronic resource] ] : nation, history, and narration / / Priyamvada Gopal
| The Indian English novel [[electronic resource] ] : nation, history, and narration / / Priyamvada Gopal |
| Autore | Gopal Priyamvada <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 209 p. : maps |
| Disciplina | 823.909891411 |
| Collana | Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English |
| Soggetto topico |
Indic fiction (English) - 20th century - History and criticism
Indic fiction (English) - 21st century - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-383-04511-9
9786611998745 1-281-99874-5 0-19-156763-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782882403321 |
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Gopal Priyamvada <1968->
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||
| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Indian English novel : nation, history, and narration / / Priyamvada Gopal
| The Indian English novel : nation, history, and narration / / Priyamvada Gopal |
| Autore | Gopal Priyamvada <1968-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 209 p. : maps |
| Disciplina | 823.909891411 |
| Collana | Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English |
| Soggetto topico |
Indic fiction (English) - 20th century - History and criticism
Indic fiction (English) - 21st century - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-383-04511-9
9786611998745 1-281-99874-5 0-19-156763-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Timeline -- Maps -- Introduction: Ideas of India -- 1 Making English India -- Writing nation and history -- Anglicizing India: project and response -- Bilingual self-fashioning -- Two early historical novels -- 2 Ethnography, Gender, and Nation -- The first anglophone novel: Rajmohan's Wife -- Sacred nationhood: Anandamath -- Woman, nation, and idolatry: The Home and the World -- Women and self-representation: Kamala and Saguna -- 3 'Mahatma-Magic': Gandhi and Literary India -- Mythmaking: Kanthapura -- The machine: Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable -- All Gandhi's men: Waiting for the Mahatma -- Spiritual leadership and self-knowledge: The Guide -- The perils of performance: He Who Rides a Tiger -- Colonial legend to postcolonial touchstone: Gandhi in Nayantara Sahgal's novels -- Great Indian soul and The Great Indian Novel -- 4 Writing Partition -- Witnessing the past: Train to Pakistan -- Gender and the romance of nation: The Heart Divided -- Violence and the Other: Ice-Candy-Man and Noor -- Fragmented nations, divided histories: Shame -- Othering the self: The Shadow Lines -- Writing the counterfactual: Looking Through Glass -- Reconstructing historiography: In an Antique Land -- 5 Midnight's Legacies: Two Epic Novels of Nation -- Intertexts: Hatterr and Trotter -- A thousand and one possibilities: Midnight's Children -- Middle-class self-fashioning: A Suitable Boy -- 6 Bombay and the Novel -- Real and imagined citizens: Such a Long Journey -- The story-factory: A Fine Balance -- Millenarian dreams: The Death of Vishnu -- Whose home? Baumgartner's Bombay -- The urban and the pastoral: Tara Lane -- In praise of the bastard: The Moor's Last Sigh -- Meditations on neighbours: Ravan and Eddie -- 7 Family Matters: Domesticity and Gender in the Novel -- Narrating change: Sunlight on a Broken Column.
Outside history: Twilight in Delhi -- Pushing the perimeter: The Walled City -- The woman I am now: Difficult Daughters -- Tragic transformations: Family Matters -- 'Irrelevant, middle class'? Shashi Deshpande and Anita Desai -- Of 'Small Things' -- 8 Imagining 'Origins': The Literature of Migration -- The making of a diaspora -- The Caribbean: A House for Mr Biswas -- England: The Satanic Verses -- Britain: The Buddha of Suburbia -- Kenya: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall -- United States: Jasmine -- Conclusion: The Contemporary Scene -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Y -- Z. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824953403321 |
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Gopal Priyamvada <1968->
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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