The Perishable Empire; Essays on Indian Writing in English
by UNKNOWNEdition: 8th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-08-07
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press, USA
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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.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Nation, Novel, Language | p. 1 |
| Rajmohan's Wife: The First Indian English Novel | p. 30 |
| Churning the Seas of Treacle: Three Ways | p. 51 |
| Ambiguous Discourse: The Novels of Krupa Satthianadhan | p. 68 |
| Hearing Her Own Voice: Defective Acoustics in Colonial India | p. 89 |
| 'We Say Desh': The Other Nirad Babu | p. 117 |
| Maps and Mirrors: Co-ordinates of Meaning in The Shadow Lines | p. 134 |
| Haroun and the Sea of Stories: Fantasy or Fable? | p. 149 |
| The Anxiety of Indianness | p. 166 |
| Divided by a Common Language | p. 187 |
| Index | p. 205 |
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