The Writing of the Nation by Its Elite: The Politics of Anglophone Indian Literature in the Global Age (Literary Cultures of the Global South)

Synopsis

This volume examines the idea of India as it emerges in the writing of its anglophone elite, post-2000. Drawing on a variety of genres, including fiction, histories, non-fiction assessments – economic, political, and business – travel accounts, and so on, this book maps the explosion of English-language writing in India after the economic liberalization and points to the nation’s sense of its growing importance as a producer of culture. From Ramachandra Guha to William Dalrymple, from Arundhati Roy to Pankaj Mishra, from Jhumpa Lahiri to Amitav Ghosh, from Amartya Sen to Gurcharan Das, from Barkha Dutt to Tarun Tejpal, this investigation takes us from aesthetic imaginings of the nation to its fractured political fault lines, the ideological predispositions of the writers often pointing to an asymmetrically constituted India. A major intervention on how postcolonial India is written about and imagined in the anglophone world, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, history, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers with an inclination towards India and Indian writing.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

230 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000410556

Related ISBNs:

9780367554224, 9780367541293, 9781003093473

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

07/16/21

Copyrighted By:

MK Raghavendra, The right of MK Raghavendra to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Politics and Government

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