Genres of modernity
Subtitle: contemporary Indian novels in English
By: Dirk Wiemann
Contributors: ebrary, Inc
Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft -- 120
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9789042024939
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); History and criticism; Literature and history; Indic literature (English); History
Description: "Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the ongoing critical debate on modernity in India, and offers for the first time a rigorous attempt to hold together the stimulating impulses of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies and the boom of Indian fiction in English." "Combining close readings of literary texts from Salman Rushdie to Kiran Nagarkar with a wide range of philosophical, sociological and historiographic reflections, Genres of Modernity is of interest not only for students of postcolonial literatures but for academics in the fields of Cultural Studies at large."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-330) and index.

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