1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Indian Fiction in English
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
E. Dawson Varughese
PART I Place-making
1. Mumbai
Stuti Khanna
Alex Tickell
3. Bengaluru – Bangalore
Kiran Keshavamurthy
4. Kolkata
Abin Chakraborty
5. Small Town India
Dolores Herrero
6. North East India
Nandana Dutta
PART II Resistance and Struggle
7. Resistance and Resilience in post-millennial novels of Political Violence in India
Nadia Butt and Sana Asif
8. Post-millennial Indian Campus Fiction in English
Nidhi Angurala
9. Mental Health and Substance Misuse in post-millennial Indian fiction in English
Nitika Gulati
10. Between Appointments and Resignation: The Nation in Corporate Fiction
Jhilam Chattaraj
PART III Identities and Relationships
11. Masculinity(ies) and boyhood in the post-millennial Indian novel in English
Beniamin Kłaniecki
12. Rebels without a cause: coming of age in the New Millennium
Alessandro Vescovi
13. Mothers, Daughters and the Maternal in Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in English
Indrani Karmakar
14. Queernesses and Post-millennial Indian fiction in English
J. Daniel Luther and Roshan Johri
15. Through animal eyes: reinhabiting the literary landscape of post-millennial Urban India Jayaditya Vittal
PART VI Past and Future Indias
16. Indian Science Fiction in English in the New Millennium
Suparno Banerjee
17. Desi Dystopias in post-millennial fiction in English
E. Dawson Varughese
18. Writing the Female Earth Body: Green Écriture in Post-Millennial Indian fiction in English Swarnalatha Rangarajan
19. Historical Fiction: re-enchanting History in the new millennium
Nikhil Govind
20. De-mythologising Women in post-millennial re-imaginings of Indian Hindu epics
Varsha Singh and Pooja Agarwal
PART V Genre fictions
21. Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives in English
Ira Sarma
22. Desi Bridget Joneses: post-millennial Indian Chick Lit in English
Srijani Ghosh
23. Post-millennial Indian crime fiction in English
Somdatta Bhattacharya
24. Post-millennial Indian romance fiction in English
Meghna Prabir
25. Indian Englishes in post-millennial fiction in English
Birgit Neumann
PART VI Researched narrative-interviews
26. The New Indian Literature Festival: a conversation with Shinie Antony, Sabin Iqbal and Pervin Saket
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
27. Post-millennial years of publishing in English (with)in India and related activity
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
28. Academic Journals, South Asia and the post-millennial dispensation
Claire Chambers
29. Post-millennial Indian fiction in English and book cover design
Faisal Ahmed
Index
Biography
E. Dawson Varughese is Professor of Literary Cultural Studies at Manipal Institute of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts (MISHA), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, South India.
