Reading New India: Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in English

✍ Scribed by E. Dawson Varughese

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Reading New India is an insightful exploration of contemporary Indian writing in English. Exploring the work of such writers as Aravind Adiga (author of the Man-Booker Prize winning White Tiger), Usha K.R. and Taseer, the book looks at how the 'new' India has been recreated and defined in an English Language literature that is now reaching a global audience. The book describes how Indian fiction has moved beyond notions of 'postcolonial' writing to reflect an increasingly confident and diverse cultures. Reading New India covers such topics as:- Representation of the city: Mumbai and Bangalore- Chick Lit to Crick Lit - Call centre dramas and corporate lives - Crime novels and Bharati narratives - Graphic novels Including a chronological time-line of major social, cultural and political reforms, biographies of the major authors covered, further reading and a glossary of Hindi terms, this book is an essential guide for students of contemporary world literature and postcolonial writing.

✦ Table of Contents

Title page
Copyright page
Dedecation
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction: From postcolonial India to New India
1.1 ‘Indianness’ since independence
1.2 Literary ‘Indianness’
1.3 New India, a new canon
1.4 How the book is organized, its interests and focus
Further reading
Chapter 2 Urban scapes
2.1 Bangalore
2.2 Mumbai
Chapter 3 Chick lit to crick lit
3.1 Chick lit
3.2 Crick lit
Chapter 4 Young India
4.1 Call centres and corporate lives
4.2 MSM
Chapter 5 Crime writing
5.1 Female detectives
5.2 Difference and death
Chapter 6 Fantasy and epic narrative
6.1 New [Fantastical] India
6.2 Bharati fantasy or historical fiction?
Chapter 7 Graphic novels
7.1 ‘Post-liberalized India’
7.2 Conflict
Conclusions: New/Old stories in Old/New ways?
Old and new: The future of ‘Reading India’
References
Further reading
Glossary
Chronological Timeline
Author Biographies
Index