Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market [electronic resource] /
Dwivedi, O.editor.
Lau, L.editor.
Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market delves into the influences and pressures of the marketplace on this genre, which this volume contends has been both gatekeeper as well as a significant force in shaping the production and consumption of this literature.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: The Reception of Indian Writing in English (IWE) in the Global Literary Market; Part I: Marketing Theory of IWE; 1 Writing India Right: Indian Writing and the Global Market; 2 Indian Writing in English as Celebrity; 3 How Does It Feel to Be the Solution? Indians and Indian Diaspora Fiction: Their Role in the Marketplace and the University; 4 Commodifying Culture: Language and Exoticism in IWE; 5 Indian Writing in the West: Imperialism, Exoticism and Visibility; Part II: Indian Women Writers
6 Of Saris and Spices: Marketing Paratexts of Indian Women's Fiction7 Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss and the Troubled Symbolic Production of a Man Booker Prize Winner; Part III: Indian Men Writers; 8 Global Goondas? Money, Crime and Social Anxieties in Aravind Adiga's Writings; 9 In the Right Place at the Right Time: A Tale of Two Brothers, Rohinton and Cyrus Mistry; 10 '(Not) readily available': Kiran Nagarkar in the Global Market; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market delves into the influences and pressures of the marketplace on this genre, which this volume contends has been both gatekeeper as well as a significant force in shaping the production and consumption of this literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Oriental literature.
Literature   .
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Asian Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Fiction.