Rosemary George

Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tracks the establishment of a national literature in English for independent India over the course of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781107040007
• ISBN-10: 1107040000
• Artikelnr.: 38611286

Autorenporträt

Rosemary Marangoly George is Associate Professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction (Cambridge, 1996) and editor of Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
1. Many a slip between the literary and the national
2. R. K. Narayan and the fiction of the 'ordinary Indian'
3. The in-between life of Mulk Raj Anand
4. The Sahitya Akademi's showcasing of national literature
5. Partition fiction and the 'birth' of national literature
Epilogue.