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South Asian writers, Latin American literature, and the rise of global English / Roanne L. Kantor, Stanford University.
Van Pelt - New Book Display PR9570.S64 K36 2022
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kantor, Roanne L., author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in world literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Asian literature (English)--History and criticism.
- South Asian literature (English).
- South Asian literature (English)--Latin American influences.
- English language--Foreign countries.
- English language.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that 'a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India,' South Asian literature has served as the imagined battleground between local linguistic multiplicity and a rapidly globalizing English. In response to this endless polemic, Indian and Pakistani writers set out in another direction altogether. They made an unexpected journey to Latin America. The cohort of authors that moved between these regions include Latin-American Nobel laureates Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz; Booker Prize notables Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Mohammed Hanif, and Mohsin Hamid. In their explorations of this new geographic connection, Roanne Kantor claims that they formed the vanguard of a new, multilingual world literary order. Their encounters with Latin America fundamentally shaped the way in which literature written in English from South Asia exploded into popularity from the 1980s until the mid-2000s, enabling its global visibility"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kantor, Roanne L. South Asian writers, Latin American literature, and the rise of global English
- ISBN:
- 9781316510797
- 1316510794
- OCLC:
- 1263865326
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