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"Priyamvada Gopal shows how the English-language or Anglophone Indian novel is a heterogeneous body of fictionin 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 scholars have termed 'the idea of India'. This study traces the lines of influence across significant literary works and situates individual writers and texts in their historical context. Its emergence out of the colonial encounter and nation-formation has impelled the Anglophonenovel to return repeatedly to the question: 'What is India?' In the most significant works of Anglophone fiction, 'India' emerges not just as a theme but as a point of debate, reflection, and contestation. Writers whose works are considered in their context include Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan, SalmanRushdie, Nayantara Sahgal, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Vikram Seth."--BOOK JACKET
目录
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 novel: Rajmohan's Wife 28
Sacred nationhood: Anandamath 31
Woman, nation, and idolatry: The Home and the World 34
Women and self-representation: Kamala and Saguna 39
3 'Mahatma-Magic': Gandhi and Literary India 43
Mythmaking: Kanthapura 46
The machine: Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable 50
All Gandhi's men: Waiting for the Mahatma 54
Spiritual leadership and self-knowledge: The Guide 57
The perils of performance: He Who Rides a Tiger 61
Colonial legend to postcolonial touchstone:
Gandhi in Nayantara Sahgal's novels 63
Great Indian soul and The Great Indian Novel 67
4 Writing Partition 69
Witnessing the past: Train to Pakistan 70
Gender and the romance of nation: The Heart Divided 72
Violence and the Other: Ice-Candy-Man and Noor 75
Fragmented nations, divided histories: Shame 78
Othering the self: The Shadow Lines 81
Writing the counterfactual: Looking Through Glass 82
Reconstructing historiography: In an Antique Land 86
5 Midnight's Legacies: Two Epic Novels of Nation 90
Intertexts: Hatterr and Trotter 92
A thousand and one possibilities: Midnight's Children 94
Middle-class self-fashioning: A Suitable Boy 105
6 Bombay and the Novel 116
Real and imagined citizens: Such a Long Journey 119
The story-factory: A Fine Balance 121
Millenarian dreams: The Death of Vishnu 125
Whose home? Baumgartner's Bombay 126
The urban and the pastoral: Tara Lane 129
In praise of the bastard: The Moor's Last Sigh 130
Meditations on neighbours: Ravan and Eddie 135
7 Family Matters: Domesticity and Gender in the Novel 139
Narrating change: Sunlight on a Broken Column 140
Outside history: Twilight in Delhi 144
Pushing the perimeter: The Walled City 145
The woman I am now: Difficult Daughters 148
Tragic transformations: Family Matters 149
'Irrelevant, middle class'? Shashi Deshpande
and Anita Desai 151
Of 'Small Things' 155
8 Imagining 'Origins': The Literature of Migration 160
The making of a diaspora 161
The Caribbean: A House for Mr Biswas 162
England: The Satanic Verses 165
Britain: The Buddha of Suburbia 170
Kenya: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall 172
United States: Jasmine 174
Conclusion: The Contemporary Scene 177
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