Fictions of India : : Narrative and Power / / Peter Morey.
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748611812);Fictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers dealing with India. It examines the imperial context in which the writers operate and suggests how historical and ideological assum...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Post-Colonial Criticism: A Transformative Labour
- I. Gothic and Supernatural- Allegories at Work and at Play in Kipling's Indian Fiction
- II. E. M. Forster and the Dialogic Imagination
- III. John Masters: Writing as Staying On
- IV. The Burden of Representation: Counter-Discourse through Cultural Texts in J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur
- v. The God that Left the Temple: Unravelling the Imperial Narrative in Paul Scott's Raj Quartet
- VI. Post-Colonial DestiNations: Spatial Re( con)figurings in Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan and Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance
- Bibliography
- Index