BABU FICTIONS
Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 22 December 2005
- ISBN 9780195679038
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages424 pages
- Size 216x140x20 mm
- Weight 404 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
'...[An] intelligent and argumentative book on contemporary Indian English novels...' - Michael Wood, London Review of Books
'Khair's study is worlds away from the glossy Sunday supplements. He subjects writers and their works to a barrage of intellectual heavy artillery...Khair writes about the instrinsic, strictly technical, problems of representation that confront Indian writers of English, ever in danger of sounding parodic or patronising about non-Babu Indians.' - Alok Rai, Outlook
'...brilliant and insightful...[This book is] highly rewarding...' - Makarand Paranjape, Gentleman
'Khair is successful in his bid "to address Indian English texts without mutilating them to fit postcolonial paradigms". - Meenakshi Mukherjee, former Professor, Delhi University
'...a highly nuanced study of Indian English fiction...that takes as given the necessity to be live to local realities as well as to the international...Khair gives us interesting insights...on Indian English novel...writers and their works.' - G J V Prasad, Tehelka
'[The book has] an excellent, lucid introduction...Khair must be lauded for his intent [to] "examine Indian English fiction"...beyond and above the currents of a fashionable post-colonialism.' - Amrita Bhalla, Angles on the English-Speaking World
'...splendidly written, well researched, and balances theory and critical practice extemely well. The interweaving of literary and social motifs is also deftly accomplished.' - Terry Eagleton, Warton Professor of English Literature, Oxford University
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Problems of Narration
Contexts of Babu Fictions
Maps of Babu Fiction
The Rhetoric of Exile
A Cosmopolitan Identity: The Birthmakrs of Hybridity
Language: Problems of Dialogue and Mapping
II. Tensions in the Narrative
Caste: Teh Hiranyagarbha Syndrome
Teh Urban Landscape: Neighbourhoods, a Class Apart
Gender and Class: A Well-placed Displacement
III Ways of Narrating
The Indian and the Universal in Raja Rao: Making the World
R K Narayan: A View from the Window
V S Naipaul: Narrating from the Empty Centre
Rushdie's Recipe for Newness
The Example of Amitav Ghosh: 9Re0 Establishing Connections
Afterword: Conflictual Spaces
Appendices
Imperialism and Colonization
Aliens from Marx
Caste and Class
Bibliography
Index
