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With Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, V.S. Naipaul and Kiran Desai winning prestigious awards for their literary output, Indian English literature has gained a voice of its own. Yet, as most readers of criticism of it agree, there is a dearth of serious examination of its authors and their work. This collection of essays attempts a contrapuntal reading of Indian English literature with what Ranjan Ghosh calls the ""infusionist"" approach. Since a majority of readers are made to stay away from a branded author or work, this book rejects any categorization such as ""postcolonial"" or ""Commonwealth."" It deals with a wide range of issues--which human beings suffer from all over the world--including those that may not have anything to do with the politicized side of ""the postcolonial"" or ""the Commonwealth.""

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Author:   Chetan Deshmane
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780786473083

ISBN 10:   0786473088
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   10 May 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Corporate Bodies/Colonial Exchange: Amatory Authority and Familial Extension in The Travels of Dean Mahomet (Ken Monteith) Claiming Her Own Contexts: Strategic Singularity in the Poetry of Toru Dutt (Natalie Phillips Hoffmann) The Body as Prism: Trauma Captured and Reflected in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day (Katherine Cottle) “New Old Indias?” Bharati Mukherjee’s Fictional Canon and the Journey Towards The Tree Bride (Helena Grice) From History to Intertextuality: Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World (David Callahan) Roland Barthes and the Judgment of History: A Reading Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Ben Okri’s The Famished Road (Senayon S. Olaoluwa) Political Satire in a Detective Mode: Genre Theory and Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey (Kaustav Bakshi) Suicide and Rebirth of Community in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance (Sukjoo Sohn) Transcultural Scenarios in Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey and Neil Bissoondath’s A Casual Brutality (Adriana Elena Stoican) Householder Disintegration and Awakening of Feminine Consciousness: Shashi Desphande’s A Matter of Time (Mark Fabiano) Identity, Language and Power in Suniti Namjoshi (Serena Guarracino) Excessive Desire, Shattered Identities: The Outsider’s Agency Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (Anna Paige Rogers) The Taboo in Indian Literature in English: Expanded Ways Writing and Reading Indianness (Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar) The Cultural Overcoat in Lahiri’s The Namesake: Diasporic Experience and the Transnational Moment (Hrishikesh Ingle) “A Race of Angels”: The Dialectic of Liminality in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (Chetan Deshmane) Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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Chetan Deshmane is associate professor of English at the University of Pune, India. He has published in a number of journals, including The Explicator, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Plath Profiles, South Asian Review, Academic Research, IUP Journal of English Studies and Asian Quarterly.

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