South-Asian fiction in English : contemporary transformations /: contemporary transformations. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alex Tickell.
• Authors: Tickell, Alex
• Contents: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction; Alex Tickell -- PART I: REGIONAL FORMATIONS -- 1. Of Capitalism and Critique: 'Af-Pak' Fiction in the Wake of 9/11; Priyamvada Gopal -- 2. 'An Idea whose Time has Come': Indian Fiction in English after 1991; Alex Tickell -- 3. English-Language Fiction of Bangladesh; Cara Cilano -- 4. Sri Lankan Fiction in English 1994-2014; Ruvani Ranasinha -- PART II: CONTEMPORARY TRANSFORMATIONS -- 5. Writing the Margins (in English): Notes from some South-Asian Cities; Stuti Khanna -- 6. Occupying Literary and Urban Space: Adiga, Authenticity and the Politics of Socio-economic Critique; Dominic Davies -- 7. Contemporary Indian Commercial Fiction in English; Suman Gupta -- 8. Genre Fiction of New India: Post-millennial Configurations of Crick Lit, Chick Lit and Crime Writing; E. Dawson Varughese -- 9. Vignettes of Change: A Discussion of Two Indian Graphic Novels; Pooja Sinha -- 10. The New Pastoral: Environmentalism and Conflict in Contemporary Writing from Kashmir; Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- 11. Narratives of Mourning in the Shadow of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act: State Violence and Contested Sovereignty in Contemporary South-Asian Fiction; Stephen Morton -- 12. Solidarity, Suffering and 'Divine Violence': Fictions of the Naxalite Insurgency; Pavan Kumar Malreddy -- 13. Writing South-Asian Diasporic Identity Anew; Maya Parmar -- 14. Minor Literature and the South-Asian Short Story; Neelam Srivastava -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages)
• Subjects: 820.9/954; Literature; South Asian fiction (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; South Asian fiction (English); Fiction -- General; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900; Fiction & related items; Oriental literature; Literature ; Comparative literature; Fiction; Literary Criticism -- Asian -- General; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137403544; 1137403543
• Related ISBNs: 9781137403537; 1137403535
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 16, 2016).
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