Postcolonial literary history and Indian English fiction
By: Paul Sharrad.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781604975604
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Anglo-Indian fiction -- History and criticism; English literature -- Indic influences; British -- India -- Intellectual life; Postcolonialism in literature; India -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: handcuffed to history; title: Desani redressed: Baroque folds and the postcolonial novel; title: The cloth of history: Carlyle, Leibniz and the great trotter; title: Blackbirding: diaspora narratives and the invasion of the bodysnatchers; title: Spirits of place: Anita Desai's fire on the mountain and Namita Gokhale's The book of shadows; title: Frozen relations: the incest motif in Indian English fiction; title: Roy recites a history lesson; title: Folding up the family: impossible metaphors of nation; title: A turn in the south: Ranga Rao and Bharati Mukherjee; title: The ties that bind? freedom, free fall and family in diasporic fiction; title: writing through glass: fiction and history in Kesavan, Rushdie and Ghosh; title: What really happened: myth, history and Vikram Chandra.