Raita Merivirta

The Emergency and the Indian English Novel

Memory, Culture and Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event that prompted the writing of several notable novels attempting to preserve the silenced and fading memory of its human rights violations and suspension of democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138312982
• ISBN-10: 1138312983
• Artikelnr.: 56959357

Autorenporträt

Raita Merivirta is an Endeavour Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is one of the authors of Frontiers of Screen History: Imagining European Borders in Cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Midnight's Children: preserving
memories for "the amnesiac nation" 3. Safeguarding democracy in The Great
Indian Novel 4. Family ties: nepotism and corruption in Rich Like Us 5.
The Repressive State Apparatus in Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance
6. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.