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This book is about the most vibrant yet under-studied aspects of Indian writing today. It examines multilingualism, current debates on postcolonial versus world literature, the impact of translation on an "Indian" literary canon, and Indian authors' engagement with the public sphere. The essays cover political activism and the North-East Tribal novel; the role of work in the contemporary Indian fictional imaginary; history as felt and reconceived by the acclaimed Hindi author Krishna Sobti; Bombay fictions; the Dalit autobiography in translation and its problematic international success; development, ecocriticism and activist literature; casteism and access to literacy in the South; and gender and diaspora as dominant themes in writing from and about the subcontinent. Troubling Eurocentric genre distinctions and the split between citizen and subject, the collection approaches Indian literature from the perspective of its constant interactions between private and public narratives, thereby proposing a method of reading Indian texts that goes beyond their habitual postcolonial identifications as "national allegories".

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Indian Literature and the World
• Author: Rossella Ciocca, Neelam Srivastava
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9781137545497
• ISBN: 1137545496
• ID: 15587611
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 4854 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 148 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. May 2017

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