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Rewriting India : eight writers / Bruce King.
Van Pelt Library PR9485.5.I53 K56 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Bruce, 1933- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indic poetry (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
- Indic poetry (English).
- Indic fiction (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
- Indic fiction (English).
- India--In literature.
- India.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 280 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- A study of eight major contemporary Indian authors who write in English -- Arun Kolatkar, Keki N. Daruwalla, Amit Chaudhuri, Pankaj Mishra, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Tabish Khair, Susan Visvanathan, and Jeet Thayil -- this book offers a reading of their works with a focus on themes, formal characteristics, influences, etc. As Bruce King analyses aesthetic, social, psychological, and metaphysical dimensions of the work of these writers, certain recurring topics knit the chapters together: how modern Indian poetry in English differs from that of nationalist writers; the role modern Indian poetry played in establishing a literary tradition of depicting contemporary Indian life; and the mapping of actual places in India in contrast to the generalized spiritual India of the Brahmin nationalists. The book shows what later prose writers learned from the poets and the importance of location to the writers as well as the changing social, cultural, and political contexts of Indian literature. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- ReWriting India
- Arun Kolatkar: The art of seeing
- K.N. Daruwalla: Parsi outsider to man of the world
- Amit Chaudhuri: Places and spaces
- Pankaj Mishra: Traveller
- Upamanyu Chatterjee: Bengali brahmins
- Tabish Khair: Bihar to Aarhus
- Susan Visvanathan: Feminist Sociologist
- Jeet Thayil: Cosmopolitan
- Coda: A million Indias now/life is here.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-270) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Isaac Norris Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0198099169
- 9780198099161
- OCLC:
- 880131630
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