Gendered neoliberalism in South Asian Literature : Other Freedoms / Mukti Lakhi Mangharam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mangharam, Mukti Lakhi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoliberalism in literature.

Femininity in literature.

South Asian literature--History and criticism.

South Asian literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"This book explores how the contraction of what it means to be human and free happens in South Asia, and how it is registered by the contemporary bildungsroman, as well as paying attention to the genre's current transformation under neoliberalism. The bildungsroman, in uniquely being concerned with the cultivation of the self, is an apt vehicle to explore neoliberalism's projects of gendered subject formation. As such, the South Asian bildungsroman illuminates how the global spread of capitalism exacerbates existing inequalities based on traditional femininities and masculinities while creating new hierarchies. This book argues that South Asian Anglophone novels as diverse as Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between Us (2006), Chetan Bhagat's One Night in a Call Center (2005), Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013), and Arvind Adiga's The White Tiger (2008) flesh out how notions like 'supply and demand,' 'free trade' and 'market driven value' are experienced, embodied, and challenged by those who occupy the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, as well as how they are experienced by women differently than by men. The result is that the universal voice of the bildungsroman is figured instead as a particularized gendered one."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Freedom of the Market in the New York Times: "Young Rural Women in India Chase Big City Dreams."

Chapter 2: The Freedom to Sell One's Labor: Submissive Femininity, Domestic Servants, and Thriti Umrigar's The Space Between Us

Chapter 3: The Freedom to Compete: Patriotic Masculinity and Romantic Love in Chetan Bhagat's Local Anglophone Novels

Chapter 4: The Freedom to Self-Make: Entrepreneurial Masculinity in Arvind Adiga's The White Tiger and Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia Coda.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350200845

9781350200838

Access Restriction:

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