Reading India in a transnational era : the works of Raja Rao / edited by Rumina Sethi and Letizia Alterno.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sethi, Rumina, editor.

Alterno, Letizia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Raja Rao--Criticism and interpretation.

Raja Rao.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

India--In literature.

India.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 242 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao's writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic writing in the 20th century. In addition to highlighting Rao's significant presence in Indian writing, the volume presents a range of previously unpublished material which contextualises Rao's work within 20th-century modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial trends. Exploring both his fictional and non-fictional works, Reading India in a Transnational Era engages with issues of subaltern agency and national belonging, authenticity, subjectivity, internationalism, multicultural politics, postcolonialism, and literary and cultural representation through language and translation. A literary volume that discusses gender and identity on both socio-political grounds, apart from dealing with Rao's linguistic experimentations in a transnational era, will be of interest among scholars and researchers of English, postcolonial and world literature, cultural theory, and Asian studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1138550299

9781138550292

OCLC:

1237633251