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Genres of emergency : forms of crisis and continuity in Indian writing in English / Ayelet Ben-Yishai.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ben-Yishai, Ayelet, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anglo-Indian literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (188 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Genres of Emergency offers literary genre as a way to understand and negotiate the varied states of emergency and crisis that have become a fixture of our contemporary world, building on a critical study of the literature written during and about the State of Emergency declared by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (1975 - 1977).
- Contents:
- Intro
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- The Colonial/Constitutional Context
- The Political Context
- The Social Context
- The Context of Corruption
- 1. Englishwala Politics
- The Emergency in English
- Seminar: The Sound of Silence
- Quest: Not with a Bang, but with a Whimper
- Satyavani: Forming a Political Alliance
- India Today: Depoliticizing Journalism
- Conclusion
- 2. Family First
- Family Planning
- Writing the Dynasty: Nayantara Sahgal
- 3. Realism
- A Situation in New Delhi: Realism of the Ruling Elite
- The Twice Born Fiction: Realist Criticism
- A Fine Balance: A Return to Emergency, Realism, and Reification
- 4. Epic
- Temporal Tensions: Mythic Past and Historical Present
- Narrator as Virile Hero
- 5. Allegory
- Allegories and Allegorical Readings
- Postcolonial Abjection: The Allegory of Woman as Subaltern
- Corrupting Allegories: Disgust
- Proliferation
- Allegorical Dualities Redux
- Generic Allegories
- 6. Thriller
- The Politics of Genre Fiction
- Character as Structure for the Modern Indian Nation
- The Looking-Glass War
- Some Future Emergency
- ConclusionOn Genre
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ben-Yishai, Ayelet Genres of Emergency
- ISBN:
- 0-19-195702-X
- 0-19-269109-0
- 0-19-269110-4
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