The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures

About the Volume Editors Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Modernity, Multilingualism, and the Literary Canon Ulka Anjaria and Anjali Nerlekar Part I: Approaches to Indian Modernities 1. Literary Multilingualism in the Age of the Vernacular Francesca Orsini 2. English in India, India in English Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 3. Concealments and Exposures: Translating Caste in Indian Literature Rita Kothari 4. The Haunted Present: Contemporary Malayalam Fiction and Kerala's Unaccommodated Pasts Udaya Kumar 5. Remaking Marathi: Modern Histories of Language and V. L. Bhave's Mahrashtra Saraswat Prachi Desphande 6. Emergency in Ellipses: Styling Modernity in U. R. Ananthamurthy's Bara C. S. Bhagya 7. Rhizomatic Entanglements: Nonhuman Representations in Yeshe Dorje Thongchi's "Baah Phulor Gundho" Amit Baishya Part II: The Indian Modern and its Legacies 8. Modernist Poetry and Marathi Modernism: Through the Lens of Dilip Chitre's Multimodal Oeuvre Vinay Dharwadker 9. Mahasweta Devi and Indian Literature from Below Auritro Majumder 10. Bilingual Premchand and His Legacy M. Asaduddin 11. Elites, Subalterns, and the Postcolonial Nation: Indian English Novels of the 1980s and 1990s Pranav Jani 12. William Jones, George Grierson, Verrier Elwin: Positioning the Horizons of Modern Indian Literature G.N. Devy 13. A New Literature for a Naya Kashmir: Progressivism and Modernism in Modern Kashmiri Literature Abir Bazaz 14. The Ambivalent Aesthetics of Muhammad Hasan Askari Zain Mian 15. The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India: The Sahitya Akademi and the Case of Tamil New Poetry Preetha Mani Part III: Indian Modern Contact Zones 16. Memoir, Autofiction, and the New Indian Humanities Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan 17. The Haunted Cane Fields of Queer Indo-Caribbean Poetry and Qoolie Poetics Rajiv Mohabir 18. Ananda Devi's Laughing Goddesses and the Limitless Possibilities of Transnational Fiction Srilata Ravi 19. Transnational Tamil Literature, Dialect, and Environment Rebecca Whittington 20. Bengal from Both Sides: Partition in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines and Mahmudul Haque's Black Ice Nasia Anam 21. Indian Gulf Writing Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil 22. Probable, Improbable, and Catastrophic Realisms in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction Sangeeta Ray Part IV: Counternarratives of the Indian Modern 23. Writing and Being Modern: Nation, Caste, Gender, and Women's Fiction V. Geetha 24. The Rise of a Muslim Voice: Telugu Writing in the Times of Hindu Nationalism Afsar Mohammad 25. Indian Literary History: Ambedkar and Dalit Literature K. Satyanarayana 26. Irom Sharmila's Poetry and the Politics of Anthologizing Indian Literature Soibam Haripriya 27. Representing Caste in Odia Literature Raj Kumar 28. Toward a Canon of Modern Indian Queer Literature R. Raj Rao 29. Adivasi Poetry: The Poetics of Indigeneity in Contemporary India Joya John 30. Green, Red: From Pragati to Jujhar in the Cold War Punjab Aditya Bahl Part V: Circulations of the Indian Modern 31. Romance, Aesthetics and Progressivism in Marathi Literary Culture: Narayan Sitaram Phadke and the Modern Marathi Novel Rahul Sarwate 32. Encasted Formalism: Notes on Reading Caste Scripts in Fiction Vivek Narayan 33. Urban Space across Genre: The Cities of Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh Gregory Goulding 34. Pastorals in the City: Space, Tradition and Translation in The Country Without a Post Office Huzaifa Pandit 35. Ambiguous Journeys and Halfway Homes in Ramanujan, Narayan, Karnad and Ananthamurthy Anjum Hasan 36. Narrative Authority in the Colonial Novel Rochelle Pinto 37. The Village in Bengali Modernity Supriya Chaudhuri Part VI: Modern Indian Forms and Media 38. Translation/Adaptation: The Vernacular Storyworld of Byomkesh Bakshi Laura Brueck 39. Saadat Hasan Manto and the Poetics of the Urdu Short Story Jennifer Dubrow 40. Voices of Resistance: Exploring Feminist Futurities in Kari and Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection Rudrani Gangopadhyay 41. How to Play Indian Literature: Indian Videogames as a Literary Form Souvik Mukherjee 42. "Together in the Leaves of the Book": Notes on a Bengali Modernist Poetics of Desire Brinda Bose 43. The Poetics of Indian Hip Hop Elloit Cardozo Index