The Indian English novel : nation, history, and narration / Priyamvada Gopal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gopal, Priyamvada, 1968- author.

Series:

Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic fiction (English)--20th century--History and criticism.

Indic fiction (English).

Indic fiction (English)--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

viii, 209 p. : maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text provides an informed and lively introduction to the Indian novel in English which is now a fixture on the international literary scene.

Contents:

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

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Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-204) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04511-9

9786611998745

1-281-99874-5

0-19-156763-9

OCLC:

437109342