
Rewriting India
Eight Writers
Bruce King(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published in December 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
278 pages
978-0-19-809916-1 (ISBN)
Description
A 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, and influences. 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-809916-1 (9780198099161)
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Person
Bruce King is a well-known scholar of seventeenth-century English literature and Commonwealth literature. He has held lectureships at Bristol University and the University of Ibadan and professorships at universities in Scotland, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, France, Nigeria, and the United States.
Content
Preface ; 1. ReWriting India ; 2. Arun Kolatkar: The Art of Seeing ; 3. Daruwalla: Parsi Outsider to Man of the World ; 4. Amit Chaudhuri: Places and Spaces ; 5. Pankaj Mishra's Travels ; 6. Upamanyu Chatterjee's Bengali Brahmins ; 7. Tabish Khair: Bihar to Aarhus ; 8. Visvanathan, Feminist Sociologist ; 9. Jeet Thayil 's Internationalism ; 10. Coda: A Million Indias Now/ Life is Here ; End notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; About the Author