The Perishable Empire Essays on Indian Writing in English,9780195651478

The Perishable Empire Essays on Indian Writing in English

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ISBN13: 9780195651478
ISBN10: 0195651472
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-04-12
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This book provides a new perspective on Indian writing in English by researching into its nineteenth-century origins and seeing its subsequent development in relation to other Indian language literatures.

Author Biography

Meenakshi Mukherjee is an Honorary Professor at the University of Hyderabad.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Part I
Nation, Novel, Language
1(29)
Rajmohan's Wife: The First Indian English Novel
30(21)
Churching the Seas of Treacle: Three Ways
51(17)
Ambiguous Discourse: The Novels of Krupa Satthianadhan
68(21)
Hearing Her Own Voice: Defective Acoustics in Colonial India
89(28)
Part II
`We Say Desh': The Other Nirad Babu
117(17)
Maps and Mirrors: Co-ordinates of Meaning in The Shadow Lines
134(15)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories: Fantasy or Fable?
149(17)
The Anxiety of Indianness
166(21)
Divided by a Common Language
187(18)
Index 205

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