Author: Wiemann, Dirk.
Title: Genres of modernity : contemporary Indian novels in English.
Description: Amsterdam & New York : Rodopi, 2008. Paperback. x,334 pp. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 120). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. Content : Introduction; 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 ISBN 9789042024939.

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