Indian English and the fiction of national literature /
"During the twentieth century, at the height of the independence movement and after, Indian literary writing in English was entrusted with the task of consolidating the image of a unified, seemingly caste-free, modernising India for consumption both at home and abroad. This led to a critical in...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Many a slip between the literary and the national
- R.K Narayan and the fiction of the "ordinary Indian"
- The in-between life of Mulk Raj Anand
- The Sahitya Akademi's showcasing of national literature
- Partition fiction and the "birth" of national literature.