South-Asian Fiction in English [electronic resource] : Contemporary Transformations /
Tickell, Alex.editor.
This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and emergent forms such as the graphic novel, genre fiction and the short story. It also contextualizes some key ‘transformative’ aspects of recent fiction such as border and diaspora identities; new middle-class narratives and popular genres; and literary response to terror and conflict. Edited and designed with researchers and students in mind, the book updates existing criticism and represents a readable guide to a dynamic, rapidly changing area of global literature.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction; Alex Tickell -- PART I: REGIONAL FORMATIONS -- 1. Of Capitalism and Critique: ‘Af-Pak’ Fiction in the Wake of 9/11; Priyamvada Gopal -- 2. ‘An Idea whose Time has Come’: Indian Fiction in English after 1991; Alex Tickell -- 3. English-Language Fiction of Bangladesh; Cara Cilano -- 4. Sri Lankan Fiction in English 1994–2014; Ruvani Ranasinha -- PART II: CONTEMPORARY TRANSFORMATIONS -- 5. Writing the Margins (in English): Notes from some South-Asian Cities; Stuti Khanna -- 6. Occupying Literary and Urban Space: Adiga, Authenticity and the Politics of Socio-economic Critique; Dominic Davies -- 7. Contemporary Indian Commercial Fiction in English; Suman Gupta -- 8. Genre Fiction of New India: Post-millennial Configurations of Crick Lit, Chick Lit and Crime Writing; E. Dawson Varughese -- 9. Vignettes of Change: A Discussion of Two Indian Graphic Novels; Pooja Sinha -- 10. The New Pastoral: Environmentalism and Conflict in Contemporary Writing from Kashmir; Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- 11. Solidarity, Suffering and ‘Divine Violence’: Fictions of the Naxalite Insurgency; Pavan Kumar Malreddy -- 12. Writing South-Asian Diasporic Identity Anew; Maya Parmar -- 13. Minor Literature and the South-Asian Short Story; Neelam Srivastava -- Index.
This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and emergent forms such as the graphic novel, genre fiction and the short story. It also contextualizes some key ‘transformative’ aspects of recent fiction such as border and diaspora identities; new middle-class narratives and popular genres; and literary response to terror and conflict. Edited and designed with researchers and students in mind, the book updates existing criticism and represents a readable guide to a dynamic, rapidly changing area of global literature.
Oriental literature.
Literature   .
Comparative literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature, Modern—21st century.
Fiction.
Asian Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Comparative Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Contemporary Literature.
Fiction.