Meenakshi Bharat

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Terrorism and the English novel in India

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first full length study of the theme of terror in the sub-continental novel in English from India. It places contemporary Indian literature it in the world context and analyzes the fictional coverage of the spread of terrorism through the length and breadth of the country and its cultural fallout.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317333807
• Artikelnr.: 44865694

Autorenporträt

Meenakshi Bharat is a writer, translator, reviewer and critic and teaches at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. She is President of the International Federation of Languages and Literatures, FILLM (UNESCO), and Treasurer of the Indian Association of Australian Studies. Her interests include cultural, postcolonial and English studies, children's literature, women's fiction and film studies - areas which she has extensively researched and written about. Among her publications are The Ultimate Colony (2003), Desert in Bloom (2004), Filming the Line of Control (2008), Rushdie the Novelist (2009), three volumes of Indo-Australian stories entitled Fear Factor: Terror Incognito (2010), Alien Shores: Tales of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (2012), A House for Mr Biswas: Critical Perspectives (2012), Only Connect: Technology and Us (2014), and a children's book, Little Elephant Throws a Party (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Under the Shadow of Terror: The
Contemporary Indian Novel Part 1: The Geographical Ambit of the
Postterrorist Novel 2. Sad Paradise: Kashmir I 3. The Collapse of Paradise
Itself: Kashmir II 4. The Home Story: Terrorism in the Heartlands 5.
Terror International: Global Terrorism and the Indian Novel Part 2: Formal
and Thematic Ambit 6. Visual Reconstruction: The Graphic Novel and
Terrorism 7. Gender and the Postterrorist Novel 8. Trauma and the
Postterrorist Novel 9. Conclusion: Let me cry out in that Void: Reckoning
Postterrorism in Fiction Bibliography