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LEADER: 01816cam a22003138a 4500
001 2008032879
003 DLC
005 20090901070939.0
008 080724s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008032879
020 $a9781604975604 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $ae-uk---$aa-ii---
050 00 $aPR830.I6$bS45 2008
082 00 $a823/.909954$222
100 1 $aSharrad, Paul.
245 10 $aPostcolonial literary history and Indian English fiction /$cPaul Sharrad.
260 $aAmherst, NY :$bCambria Press,$c2008.
263 $a0808
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: handcuffed to history -- Desani redressed: Baroque folds and the postcolonial novel -- The cloth of history: Carlyle, Leibniz and the great trotter -- Blackbirding: diaspora narratives and the invasion of the bodysnatchers -- Spirits of place: Anita Desai's fire on the mountain and Namita Gokhale's The book of shadows -- Frozen relations: the incest motif in Indian English fiction -- Roy recites a history lesson -- Folding up the family: impossible metaphors of nation -- A turn in the south: Ranga Rao and Bharati Mukherjee -- The ties that bind? freedom, free fall and family in diasporic fiction -- writing through glass: fiction and history in Kesavan, Rushdie and Ghosh -- What really happened: myth, history and Vikram Chandra.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAnglo-Indian fiction$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xIndic influences.
651 0 $aIndia$xIn literature.
650 0 $aBritish$zIndia$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aPostcolonialism in literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008032879.html