Overdetermined : How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mukherjee, Bharati--Criticism and interpretation.

Mukherjee, Bharati.

Bhagat, Chetan--Criticism and interpretation.

Bhagat, Chetan.

Chaudhuri, Amit, 1962---Criticism and interpretation.

Chaudhuri, Amit.

Lahiri, Jhumpa--Criticism and interpretation.

Lahiri, Jhumpa.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Group identity in literature.

East Indians in literature.

East Indian Americans in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan explores how writers, critics, teachers, and students of Indian English literatures negotiate and resist the categories through which the field is defined: ethnic, postcolonial, and Anglophone.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction. Identity and Other Open Secrets

Chapter 1. What Was Multiethnic Literature? Or, Bharati Mukherjee Doesn't Have an Indian Accent

Chapter 2/Recess 1. You Wouldn't Say That to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Chapter 3. When the Anglophone Reads "Like Hindi": Or, On Not Teaching Chetan Bhagat

Chapter 4/Recess 2. The Ambivalence of Homi Bhabha's Discourse

Chapter 5. Fictions of Divergence: Or, Amit Chaudhuri Doesn't Write the Postcolonial

Chapter 6/Recess 3. The Idea of Edward Said

Chapter 7. A Desire Called the Post-Anglophone: Or, On Not Being Jhumpa Lahiri

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-231-56246-2

OCLC:

1519120576