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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rosemary Marangoly George (University of California, San Diego)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9781316623077ISBN 10: 1316623076 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 01 September 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPrologue; 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.Reviews'This book offers an unusual yet convincing set of insights into the ways in which this language, mother-tongue of none but a handful of colonial and postcolonial elites in one of the world's most populous countries, still manages to exert and train its magnetic hold several decades after Independence.' Ananya Kabir, King's College London Author InformationRosemary 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |