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037 $bLibrary of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
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100 1 $aKing, Bruce,$d1933-$eauthor.
245 10 $aRewriting India :$beight writers /$cBruce King.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew Delhi :$bOxford University Press,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 280 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 260-270) and index.
505 0 $aReWriting India -- Arun Kolatkar: The art of seeing -- K.N. Daruwalla: Parsi outsider to man of the world -- Amit Chaudhuri: Places and spaces -- Pankaj Mishra: Traveller -- Upamanyu Chatterjee: Bengali brahmins -- Tabish Khair: Bihar to Aarhus -- Susan Visvanathan: Feminist Sociologist -- Jeet Thayil: Cosmopolitan -- Coda: A million Indias now/life is here.
520 $aA study of eight major contemporary Indian authors who write in English -- Arun Kolatkar, Keki N. Daruwalla, Amit Chaudhuri, Pankaj Mishra, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Tabish Khair, Susan Visvanathan, and Jeet Thayil -- this book offers a reading of their works with a focus on themes, formal characteristics, influences, etc. As Bruce King analyses aesthetic, social, psychological, and metaphysical dimensions of the work of these writers, certain recurring topics knit the chapters together: how modern Indian poetry in English differs from that of nationalist writers; the role modern Indian poetry played in establishing a literary tradition of depicting contemporary Indian life; and the mapping of actual places in India in contrast to the generalized spiritual India of the Brahmin nationalists. The book shows what later prose writers learned from the poets and the importance of location to the writers as well as the changing social, cultural, and political contexts of Indian literature. -- Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aIndic poetry (English)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aIndic fiction (English)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aIndia$xIn literature.
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651 7 $aIndia.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01210276
650 7 $aLiteratur.$0(DE-588)4035964-5$2gnd
650 7 $aEnglisch.$0(DE-588)4014777-0$2gnd
651 7 $aIndien.$0(DE-588)4026722-2$2gnd
648 7 $a1900 - 1999$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
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