The politics of nation formation in twentieth-century English-Indian fiction
Subtitle: Kipling, Forster, Rao, Narayan, Anand, and Rushdie
By: Uke Maxharraj ; with a foreword by Mohit K. Ray
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780773415027
Subjects: Nationalism in literature; History and criticism; Colonies in literature; Imperialism in literature; English fiction; Social action in literature; Nationalism and literature; Indic fiction (English)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-370) and index.
Table of contents: title: Aggressive nationalism in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and E.M. Forster's A passage to India; title: What is aggressive nationalism?; title: Rudyard Kipling's imperial stance of seeing the white man as a colonial ruler; title: E.M. Forster's contradictory stance toward the colonial rule; title: The effect of aggressive nationalism; title: Defensive nationalism in Raja Rao's Kanthapura and R.K. Narayan's waiting for the Mahatma; title: What is defensive nationalism?; title: the construction of Gandhian nationalistic thought in fiction; title: Urban and rural nationalisms; title: The natives' attitude toward the British; title: The issues of religion and language in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable; title: The role of religion in the process of nation formation; title: The merciless form of religion fictionalized in Anand's Untouchable; title: The role of language in the process of nation formation; title: Anand's writing of Untouchable in a language that was not his own; title: The obstacles of the new nation in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children; title: Is the process of nation formation fully accomplished with independence?; title: The consequences of nationalism in Rushdie's Midnight's children; title: The irresponsibility of political leaders as a threat to the nation; title: Rushdie's vision of how the nation could be stable and prosperous; title: Conclusion.