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The Vintage Book of Indian Writing, 1947-1997

Salman Rushdie,Elizabeth West
The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947 1997 Book PDF

Author : Salman Rushdie,Elizabeth West
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015040339635

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The Vintage Book of Indian Writing, 1947-1997 by Salman Rushdie,Elizabeth West Pdf

The Indian subcontinent has produced some of the world's greatest writers, and a body of literature unsurpassed in its sustained imagination, impassioned lyricism and sparkling tragi-comedy. Now Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West have collected together the finest Indian writing of the last fifty years. Published to coincide with the anniversary of India's independence, it is an anthology of extraordinary range and vigour, as exciting and varied as the land that inspired it. Including works by: Mulk Raj Anand Gita Mehta Anjana Appachana Ved Mehta Vikram Chandra Rohinton Mistry Upamanyu Chatterjee R. K. Narayan Amit Chaudhuri Jawaharlal Nehru Nirad C. Chaudhuri Padma Perera Anita Desai Satyajit Ray Kiran Desai Arundhati Roy G. V. Desani Salman Rushdie Amitav Ghosh Nayantara Sahgal Githa Hariharan I. Allan Sealy Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Vikram Seth Firdaus Kanga Bapsi Sidhwa Mukul Kesavan Sara Suleri Saadat Hasan Manto Shashi Tharoor Kamala Markandaya Ardashir Vakil

The Postcolonial Exotic

Graham Huggan
The Postcolonial Exotic Book PDF

Author : Graham Huggan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134576982

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The Postcolonial Exotic by Graham Huggan Pdf

Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis.

Mirrorwork

Salman Rushdie,Elizabeth West
Mirrorwork Book PDF

Author : Salman Rushdie,Elizabeth West
Publisher : Picador
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0805057102

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Mirrorwork by Salman Rushdie,Elizabeth West Pdf

This unique anthology, Mirrorwork, presents thirty-two selections by Indian authors writing in English over the past half-century. Selected by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West, these novel excerpts, stories, and memoirs illuminate wonderful writing by authors often overlooked in the West. Chronologically arranged to reveal the development of Indian literature in English, this volume includes works by Jawaharlal Nehru, Nayantara Sahgal, Saadat Hasan Manto, G.V. Desani, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Kamala Markandaya, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Ved Mehta, Anita Desai, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Satyajit Ray, Salman Rushdie, Padma Perera, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Rohinton Mistry, Bapsi Sidhwa, I. Allan Sealy, Shashi Tharoor, Sara Suleri, Firdaus Kanga, Anjana Appachana, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Githa Hariharan, Gita Mehta, Vikram Seth, Vikram Chandra, Ardashir Vakil, Mukul Kesavan, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai.

Mirrorwork

Salman Rushdie
Mirrorwork Book PDF

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Henry Holt
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0805057099

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Mirrorwork by Salman Rushdie Pdf

Includes contributions by Gita Mehta, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Satyajit Ray, Sara Suleri, and Bapsi Sidhwa

Mapping Appetite

Pere Gallardo-Torrano,Jopi Nyman
Mapping Appetite Book PDF

Author : Pere Gallardo-Torrano,Jopi Nyman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443808262

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Mapping Appetite by Pere Gallardo-Torrano,Jopi Nyman Pdf

As recent years have witnessed a strong interest in the cultural representation of the culinary, ranging from analyses of food representation in film and literature to cultural readings of recipes, menus, national cuisines and celebrity chefs, the study of food narratives amidst contemporary consumer culture has become increasingly more important. This book seeks to respond to the challenge by presenting a series of case studies dealing with the representation of food and the culinary in a variety of cultural texts including post-colonial and popular fiction, women’s magazines and food writing. The contributors to the first part of the volume explore the various functions of food in post-colonial writing ranging from Salman Rushdie and Anita Desai to Zadie Smith and Maggie Gee in the context of globalization and multiculturalism. In the second part of the volume the focus is on two genres of popular fiction, the romantic novel and science fiction. While the romantic novels of Joanne Harris, for instance, link food and cooking with female empowerment, in science fiction food is connected with power and technology. The essays in the third part of the book explore the role of food in travel writing, women’s magazines and African American cookery books, showing how issues of gender, nation and race are present in food narratives.

The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature

MK Raghavendra
The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature Book PDF

Author : MK Raghavendra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040017623

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The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature by MK Raghavendra Pdf

Indian literature is produced in a wealth of languages but there is an asymmetry in the exposure the writing gets, which owes partly to the politics of translation into English. This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language literature after 1947 to cover such a wide range, including voices from the cultural margins of the nation like Kashmiri and Manipuri, that of women alongside those of minority and marginalised communities. In examining the politics of the writing especially in relation to concerns like nationhood, caste, tradition and modernity, postcoloniality, gender issues and religious conflict, the book goes beyond the declared ideology of each writer to get at covert significations pointing to widely shared but often unacknowledged biases. The book is deeply analytical but lucid and jargon-free and, to those unfamiliar with the writers, it introduces a new keenness into Indian literary criticism to make its objects exciting.

Writing India, Writing English

G. J. V. Prasad
Writing India Writing English Book PDF

Author : G. J. V. Prasad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317809128

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Writing India, Writing English by G. J. V. Prasad Pdf

The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book deals with the pressure that English language has exerted, and continues to exert, in India and our ideas of connectedness as a nation in the ways in which we deal with this pressure. The essays emphasise on the emergence of the hybrid language in the Tamil cultural world because of the presence of English (and Hindi); on the politics of ‘anthologisation’; and how Karnad’s Tughlaq deals with the idea of the nation, looking at its historical location. The second part of the book focuses on Indian English literature and deals with how it interacts with the idea of representing the Indian nation, sometimes obsessively, seen both in poetry and novels. The book argues that the writer’s location is crucial to the world of imagination, whether in the novel, poetry or drama. The world is inflected by the location of the author, and the struggle between the language dominant in that location and English is part of the creative tension that provides energy and uniqueness to writing.

Issues of Identity in Indian English Fiction

H. S. Komalesha
Issues of Identity in Indian English Fiction Book PDF

Author : H. S. Komalesha
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039111124

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Issues of Identity in Indian English Fiction by H. S. Komalesha Pdf

Rapid developments in the fields of trade, market, commerce and telecommunication technologies, together with cultural confrontations at the global level are creating a paradigmatic shift in people's understanding of selfhood and identity. This book makes a serious attempt to trace and map out the making of contemporary post-national identities within the subcontinental cultural production of India and in its English Fiction. One of the structural ventures of this study is that these newer identities, which are basically fragmented, ruptured, hyphenated, and palimpsestic in nature, require new descriptions and new elaborations within the field of creative literature and literary criticism. In order to pursue its research on these lines, the present work contrasts the notion of subjecthood and identity with the earlier phases of Indian cultural imagination as represented in some of the pioneering works of Indian English Fiction that have now attained a canonical status. By analysing some of the predominant concerns that work as leitmotif in most of the Indian English novels, the book brings together and reinterprets some problematic concepts such as history, culture, religion, nation and nationalism and creates a theoretical axis upon which it charts insightful and engaging aspects of selfhood and identity.

Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature

Rosemary Marangoly George
Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature Book PDF

Author : Rosemary Marangoly George
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107040007

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Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature by Rosemary Marangoly George Pdf

Tracks the establishment of a national literature in English for independent India over the course of the twentieth century

Salman Rushdie in the Cultural Marketplace

Ana Cristina Mendes
Salman Rushdie in the Cultural Marketplace Book PDF

Author : Ana Cristina Mendes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317059714

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Salman Rushdie in the Cultural Marketplace by Ana Cristina Mendes Pdf

Taking up the roles that Salman Rushdie himself has assumed as a cultural broker, gatekeeper, and mediator in various spheres of public production, Ana Cristina Mendes situates his work in terms of the contemporary production, circulation, and consumption of postcolonial texts within the workings of the cultural industries. Mendes pays particular attention to Rushdie as a public performer across various creative platforms, not only as a novelist and short story writer, but also as a public intellectual, reviewer, and film critic. Mendes argues that how a postcolonial author becomes personally and professionally enmeshed in the dealings of the cultural industries is of particular relevance at a time when the market is strictly regulated by a few multinational corporations. She contends that marginality should not be construed exclusively as a basis for understanding Rushdie’s work, since a critical grounding in marginality will predictably involve a reproduction of the traditional postcolonial binaries of oppressor/oppressed and colonizer/colonized that the writer subverts. Rather, she seeks to expand existing interpretations of Rushdie’s work, itineraries, and frameworks in order to take into account the actual conditions of postcolonial cultural production and circulation within a marketplace that is global in both orientation and effects.

Postliberalization Indian Novels in English

Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan
Postliberalization Indian Novels in English Book PDF

Author : Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857283061

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Postliberalization Indian Novels in English by Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan Pdf

“Postliberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of Global Reception and Awards” is a critical handbook that focuses on trends in contemporary Indian novels and discusses the global reception of these works. The volume provides a systematic approach to the study of Indian novelists that have not been (with certain exceptions) extensively examined.

Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India

Naheem Jabbar
Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India Book PDF

Author : Naheem Jabbar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134010400

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Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India by Naheem Jabbar Pdf

A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing. In the years preceding formal Independence from British colonial rule, Indians found themselves responding to the panorama of sin and suffering that constituted the modern present in a variety of imaginative ways. This book is a critical analysis of the uses made of India’s often millennial past by nationalist ideologues who sought a specific solution to India’s predicament on its way to becoming a post-colonial state. From independence to the present, it considers the competing visions of India’s liberation from her apocalyptical present to be found in the thinking of Gandhi, V. D. Savarkar, Nehru and B. R. Ambedkar as well as V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie. It examines some of the archetypal elements in historical consciousness that find their echo in often brutal unhistorical ways in everyday life. This book is a valuable resource for researchers interested in South Asian History, Historiography or Theory of History, Cultural Studies, English Literature, Post Colonial Writing and Literary Criticism.

South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain

Ruvani Ranasinha
South Asian Writers in Twentieth Century Britain Book PDF

Author : Ruvani Ranasinha
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191525919

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South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain by Ruvani Ranasinha Pdf

South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain is the first book to provide a historical account of the publication and reception of South Asian anglophone writing from the 1930s to the present, based on original archival research drawn from a range of publishing houses. This comparison of succeeding generations of writers who emigrated to, or were born in, Britain examines how the experience of migrancy, the attitudes towards migrant writers in the literary market place, and the critical reception of them, changed significantly throughout the twentieth century. Ranasinha shows how the aesthetic, cultural, and political context changed significantly for each generation, producing radically different kinds of writing and transforming the role of the postcolonial writer of South Asian origin. The extensive use of original materials from publishers' archives shows how shifting political, academic, and commercial agendas in Britain and North America influenced the selection, content, presentation, and consumption of many of these texts. The differences between writers of different generations can thus in part be understood in terms of the different demands of their publishers and expectations of readers in each decade. Writers from different generations are paired accordingly in each chapter: Nirad Chaudhuri (1897-1999) with Tambimuttu (1915-83); Ambalavener Sivanandan (born 1923) with Kamala Markandaya (born 1924); Salman Rushdie (born 1947) with Farrukh Dhondy (born 1944); and Hanif Kureishi (born 1954) with Meera Syal (born 1963). Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, Attia Hosain, V.S Naipaul, and Aubrey Menen are also discussed.

Eating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction

Paul Vlitos
Eating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction Book PDF

Author : Paul Vlitos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319964423

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Eating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction by Paul Vlitos Pdf

This book focuses on the fiction of four postcolonial authors: V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie. It argues that meals in their novels act as sites where the relationships between the individual subject and the social identities of race, class and gender are enacted. Drawing upon a variety of academic fields and disciplines — including postcolonial theory, historical research, food studies and recent attempts to rethink the concept of world literature — it dedicates a chapter to each author, tracing the literary, cultural and historical contexts in which their texts are located and exploring the ways in which food and the act of eating acquire meanings and how those meanings might clash, collide and be disputed. Not only does this book offer suggestive new readings of the work of its four key authors, but it challenges the reader to consider the significance of food in postcolonial fiction more generally.

From Solidarity to Schisms

Anonim
From Solidarity to Schisms Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042027039

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From Solidarity to Schisms by Anonim Pdf

From Solidarity to Schisms is the first collection to expand discussions of the effects the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath have had on fiction and film beyond an exclusively US-based focus. The essays brought together here go beyond critiquing the US to examine the cultural shifts taking place in fiction and cinema from places such as Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Pakistan, Canada, Israel, and Iran. From these many sites of production, the works discussed in this collection illustrate more precisely how 9/11 was “global” without succumbing to neat categorizations, such as “us vs. them,” “East vs. West,” “Christianity vs. Islam,” and so on. From Solidarity to Schisms is an important supplement to the US-centered cultural and critical production addressing 9/11, providing researchers and teachers alike with resources and contexts that will allow them to broaden their own examinations of novels and films by Americans and about the US. It also provides a valuable resource for students and scholars of contemporary global history and international politics who are interested in approaching 9/11, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and related topics from a cultural standpoint.