Classics of Modern South Asian Literature
Author: Rupert Snell
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783447040587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rupert Snell
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783447040587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Paul Brians
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2003-11-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 031332011X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduces a significant Indian, Pakistani, or Sri Lankan writers, includes: brief biographical backgrounds, an overview of the author's major works, and the explication of a single work. Critical perspectives are offered, as well as background information enabling readers to view each work as a window to South Asian culture.
Author: Om Prakash Dwivedi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-10-15
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 3031068173
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. Themes of disability, rural-urban division, caste, terrorism, poverty, gender, necropolitics, and uneven globalization are discussed in this book by established and emerging international scholars. Drawing their arguments from literary works rooted in the neoliberal period, the chapters show how the extractive ideology of neoliberalism invades the cultural, political, economic, and social spheres of postcolonial South Asia. The book explores different forms of “precarity” to investigate the vulnerable and insecure life conditions embodied in the everyday life of South Asia, enabling the reader to see through the rhetoric of “rising Asia”.
Author: Alex Tickell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1137403543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and emergent forms such as the graphic novel, genre fiction and the short story. It also contextualizes some key ‘transformative’ aspects of recent fiction such as border and diaspora identities; new middle-class narratives and popular genres; and literary response to terror and conflict. Edited and designed with researchers and students in mind, the book updates existing criticism and represents a readable guide to a dynamic, rapidly changing area of global literature.
Author: Jaina C. Sanga
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2004-05-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0313327009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first reference of its kind, this encyclopedia covers topics related to literature written in English by authors who were either born in South Asia or who identify themselves with that region. The volume focuses on writers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries on novelists, novels, and cinematic adaptations, as well as poets, dramatists, autobiographers, short story writers, theoreticians, critical terms, themes, genres, literary movements, and key historical events. Entries are written by expert contributors and suggest works for further reading. South Asian writing in English has recently received unprecedented critical and popular attention. The publication of Salman Rushdie's seminal novel Midnight's Children (1981) and the popularity of his later works, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize for The English Patient in 1992, and V. S. Naipaul's Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 are just a few of the highlights that mark the significance of South Asian writing in English. The first reference of its kind, this encyclopedia covers topics related to literature written in English by authors who were either born in South Asia or who identify themselves with that region. The volume focuses on writers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries on novelists, novels, and cinematic adaptations, as well as poets, dramatists, autobiographers, short story writers, theoreticians, critical terms, themes, genres, literary movements, and key historical events. Entries are written by expert contributors and suggest works for further reading. The encyclopedia includes a chronology and closes with a selected, general bibliography of anthologies and critical studies. Given the enormous popularity of South Asian literature in English, this reference is essential for all libraries.
Author: Ruth Maxey
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-02-28
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0748653864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tracing a literary lineage for works from different genres, it identifies key trends in recent South Asian American and British Asian literature by considering the favoured formal and aesthetic modes of major writers and by relating their work to differen
Author: Deepika Bahri
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Published: 2021-06-15
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1603294910
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Global and cosmopolitan since the late nineteenth century, anglophone South Asian women's writing has flourished in many genres and locations, encompassing diverse works linked by issues of language, geography, history, culture, gender, and literary tradition. Whether writing in the homeland or in the diaspora, authors offer representations of social struggle and inequality while articulating possibilities for resistance. In this volume experienced instructors attend to the style and aesthetics of the texts as well as provide necessary background for students. Essays address historical and political contexts, including colonialism, partition, migration, ecological concerns, and evolving gender roles, and consider both traditional and contemporary genres such as graphic novels, chick lit, and Instapoetry. Presenting ideas for courses in Asian studies, women's studies, postcolonial literature, and world literature, this book asks broadly what it means to study anglophone South Asian women's writing in the United States, in Asia, and around the world.
Author: Malashri Lal
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9788131706374
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Author: Alamgir Hashmi
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers Important Readings In South Asian Literatures In English. The Contribution Also Indicate The Main Trends. The First Of Its Kind In More Than Half A Century.
Author: Roanne Kantor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1009041177
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that 'a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India,' South Asian literature has served as the imagined battleground between local linguistic multiplicity and a rapidly globalizing English. In response to this endless polemic, Indian and Pakistani writers set out in another direction altogether. They made an unexpected journey to Latin America. The cohort of authors that moved between these regions include Latin-American Nobel laureates Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz; Booker Prize notables Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Mohammed Hanif, and Mohsin Hamid. In their explorations of this new geographic connection, Roanne Kantor claims that they formed the vanguard of a new, multilingual world literary order. Their encounters with Latin America fundamentally shaped the way in which literature written in English from South Asia exploded into popularity from the 1980s until the mid-2000s, enabling its global visibility.