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| Title: | Counterrealism & Indo-Anglian Fiction
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| Author: | Chelva Kanaganayakam |
| ISBN: | 0889203989 : 9780889203983 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 213 |
| Weight: | .525 Kg. |
| Published: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press - January 2002 |
| List Price: | 56.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general |
What do R K Narayan, G V Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi and Salman Rushdie have in common? They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural nationalists for not writing in native languages, they nonetheless present a critique of the historical and cultural conditions that promoted and sustained writing in English. They also have in common a counter-realist aesthetic that asks its own social, political, and textual questions. Kanaganayakam analyzes the fiction of writers who work in this vibrant Indo-Anglian tradition and demonstrates patterns of continuity and change during the last five decades. Each chapter draws attention to what is distinctive about the artifice in each author while pointing to the features that connect them. The book concludes with a study of contemporary writing and its commitment to non-mimetic forms.
