Genres of modernity : contemporary Indian novels in English

Genres of modernity : contemporary Indian novels in English / Dirk Wiemann.

Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the ongoing critical debate on modernity in India, and offers for the first time a rigorous attempt to ho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wiemann, Dirk
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008.
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 120.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Modernism (Literature) > India > History and criticism.
Indic literature (English) > History and criticism.
Literature and history > India > 20th century.
Literature and history > India > 21st century.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Indic literature (English)
Literature and history
Modernism (Literature)
India
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • A modernity that is not one
  • Meanwhile, in Indian standard time
  • Mythologising the quotidian
  • Typing the minutes
  • Violent separation, violent fusion
  • Unimagined communities
  • Two versions of Sans Souci
  • Writing home
  • The aquatic ideal
  • Desire and domestic fiction
  • Still postcolonial after all these years.

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