The Indian English novel : nation, history, and narration / Priyamvada Gopal.
The Indian English novel : nation, history, and narration / Priyamvada Gopal.
The Indian English novel : nation, history, and narration / Priyamvada Gopal.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Date
2009.
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823.90989/1
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English
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Physical content
viii, 209 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Contents
Machine derived contents note: Introduction: Ideas of India 1 -- 1 Making English India 11 -- Writing nation and history 13 -- Anglicizing India: project and response 15 -- Bilingual self-fashioning 17 -- Two early historical novels 20 -- 2 Ethnography, Gender, and Nation 25 -- The first anglophone...
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2009.
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Summary
"Priyamvada Gopal shows how the English-language or Anglophone Indian novel is a heterogeneous body of fiction in which certain dominant trends and recurrent themes are, nevertheless, discernible. It is a genre that has been distinguished from its inception by a preoccupation with both history and nation as these come together to shape what scholar...
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The Indian English novel : nation, history, and narration / Priyamvada Gopal.
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Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-204) and index.
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Other version (online)
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823.90989/1
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9780199544370 (pbk.)
9780199544387
0199544387 (hbk.)
0199544379 (pbk.)
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823.909891411
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991001867849702626
