1st Edition

Troubled Testimonies Terrorism and the English novel in India

By Meenakshi Bharat Copyright 2016
208 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

208 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

208 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

Since the 9/11 attacks terror has established its permeating hold on society’s psyche. Creative writing, a popular and visible cultural witness to the strain, has taken up this destabilization with remarkable regularity. Troubled Testimonies focuses on the Indian novel in English, deriving inspiration from these disturbances, to essay a unique grasp of the cultural make-up of the times and its... Read more

Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Under the Shadow of Terror: The Contemporary Indian Novel Part 1: The Geographical Ambit of the Postterrorist Novel 2. Sad Paradise: Kashmir I 3. The Collapse of Paradise Itself: Kashmir II 4. The Home Story: Terrorism in the Heartlands 5. Terror International: Global Terrorism and the Indian Novel Part 2: Formal and Thematic Ambit 6. Visual Reconstruction: The Graphic Novel and Terrorism 7. Gender and the Postterrorist Novel 8. Trauma and the Postterrorist Novel 9. Conclusion: Let me cry out in that Void: Reckoning Postterrorism in Fiction Bibliography

Biography

Meenakshi Bharat is a writer, translator, reviewer and critic and teaches at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. She is President of the International Federation of Languages and Literatures, FILLM (UNESCO), and Treasurer of the Indian Association of Australian Studies. Her interests include cultural, postcolonial and English studies, children’s literature, women’s fiction and film studies – areas which she has extensively researched and written about. Among her publications are The Ultimate Colony (2003), Desert in Bloom (2004), Filming the Line of Control (2008), Rushdie the Novelist (2009), three volumes of Indo-Australian stories entitled Fear Factor: Terror Incognito (2010), Alien Shores: Tales of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (2012), A House for Mr Biswas: Critical Perspectives (2012), Only Connect: Technology and Us (2014), and a children’s book, Little Elephant Throws a Party (2014).