Consumable Texts in Contemporary India
Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology
Published on 20. February 2015
Book
Hardback
X, 204 pages
978-1-137-48928-9 (ISBN)
Description
Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context - their productions, circulations and readerships - to understand current social trends.
Reviews / Votes
"Gupta displays an easy familiarity with an admirable range of both, the academic and the non-academic-as well as cultured and uncultured-literatures and discourses, and not only applies them to a range of topics and issues that are unexpected (to say the least), but with remarkably accurate, insightful and incisive results. The analyses are subtle, sophisticated and frighteningly persuasive in their implications for the sheer reach and impact of such uncultured books, and the political and ideological effects they are likely to have." (P K Vijayan, Economic Political Weekly, Vol. 51 (36), September 3, 2016)More details
Series
Edition
2015 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
X, 204 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-48928-9 (9781137489289)
DOI
10.1057/9781137489296
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Suman Gupta is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University UK. He is the author of eleven previous books and editor of seven, including The Theory and Reality of Democracy, Social Constructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies, Globalization and Literature, Imagining Iraq and Contemporary Literature: The Basics.
Content
Acknowledgements 1. Keywords and Preliminaries 2. Indian Commercial Fiction in English 3. Indian Vernacular Pulp Fiction in English Translation 4. On the Indian Readers of Hitler's Mein Kampf 5. Framing Group Discussion Guidebooks 6. Low-End Group Discussion Guidebooks and Kunjis 7. Approaching Public Sector 'Value Education' Publications 8. Mapping Public Sector 'Value Education' Publications 9. Rules of Bibliographical Sociology's Method Bibliography