The Nation of India in Contemporary Indian Literature

✍ Scribed by Anna Guttman (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Compromise and Contradiction in Jawaharlal Nehru’s Multicultural Indian Nation....Pages 15-34
Vikram Seth’s Real(ist) India....Pages 35-57
Parodying Nehru in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and The Moor’s Last Sigh....Pages 59-87
All in the Family: Nayantara Sahgal’s Indian Home....Pages 89-114
Reexamining Indian Nonalignment: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things....Pages 115-134
States of Dystopia: Imagining Future Indias in Ruchir Joshi’s The Last Jet-Engine Laugh....Pages 135-156
Unity in Diversity Beyond the Nation-State in Rupa Bajwa’s The Sari Shop....Pages 157-177
Conclusion....Pages 179-183
Back Matter....Pages 185-230

✦ Subjects

Postcolonial/World Literature; Fiction; Twentieth-Century Literature