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Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature

Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature

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£90.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107040007
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 21/11/2013
Width: 15.7 cm
Height: 23.5 cm
During the twentieth century, at the height of the independence movement and after, Indian literary writing in English was entrusted with the task of consolidating the image of a unified, seemingly caste-free, modernising India for consumption both at home and abroad. This led to a critical insistence on the proximity of the national and the literary, which in turn, led to the canonisation of certain writers and themes and the dismissal of others. Examining English anthologies of 'Indian literature', as well as the establishment of the Sahitya Akademi (the national academy of letters) and the work of R. K. Narayan and Mulk Raj Anand among others, Rosemary Marangoly George exposes the painstaking efforts that went into the elaboration of a 'national literature' in English for independent India even while deliberating the fundamental limitations of using a nation-centric critical framework for reading literary works.
Prologue; 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.

Rosemary Marangoly George (University of California, San Diego)

Rosemary 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).

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