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Postcolonial literary history and Indian English fiction / Paul Sharrad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharrad, Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Anglo-Indian fiction--History and criticism.
- Anglo-Indian fiction.
- English literature--Indic influences.
- English literature.
- India--In literature.
- India.
- British--India--Intellectual life.
- British.
- Intellectual life.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 288 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction: handcuffed to history
- Desani redressed: Baroque folds and the postcolonial novel
- The cloth of history: Carlyle, Leibniz, and the great trotter
- Blackbirding: diaspora narratives and the Invasion of the bodysnatchers
- Spirits of place: Anita Desai's Fire on the mountain and Namita Gokhale's The book of shadows
- Frozen relations: the incest motif in Indian English fiction
- Roy recites a history lesson
- Folding up the family: impossible metaphors of nation
- A turn in the south: Ranga Rao and Bharati Mukherjee
- The ties that bind? freedom, free fall, and family in diasporic fiction
- Writing through glass: fiction and history in Kesavan, Rushdie, and Ghosh
- What really happened: myth, history, and Vikram Chandra.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-280) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781604975604
- 1604975601
- OCLC:
- 236117431
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