Affect and the performative dimension of fear in the Indian English novel : tumults of the imagination /

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This volume provides a critical reading of Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan (1956), Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others (2014) and Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance (1995) to provide a literary account of three fundamental moments in India's history: the Partition of 1947, the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De Riso, Giuseppe (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
Temas:
Indic literature (English) > History and criticism.
Littérature de l'Inde (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Cultural studies.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Indic literature (English)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This volume provides a critical reading of Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan (1956), Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others (2014) and Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance (1995) to provide a literary account of three fundamental moments in India's history: the Partition of 1947, the Naxalbari movement, and Indira Gandhi's Emergency. These novels provide literary interpretations of the ways in which feelings of fear and insecurity connected with ethno-religious rivalries, as well as with new power shifts in Indian socio-economic structure, gave a significant contribution to the formation of the pol.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (113 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-113).
ISBN:9781527512016
1527512010

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