1st Edition
Writing India Anew Indian English Fiction 2000-2010
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Some of the most prominent scholars in the field, including Rimi B. Chatterjee, Bill Ashcroft and Shirley Chew, explore a range of themes that extend from the re-mapping of mythology and history to reassessing the globalised India of today. Together, they contend that the current... Read more
Editors’ Preface, Introduction, I REIMAGINING THE NATION, II REVISITING THE PAST, III REVIEWING THE PRESENT, IV REINSCRIBING HOME, About the Editors and Contributors, References, Index
Biography
Krishna Sen is professor and former head of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, and founder member of the University’s Women’s Studies Research Centre. Rituparna Roy has been a Lecturer in English Literature at Basantidevi College, Kolkata, India; and recently, an Affiliated Fellow at The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Amsterdam. She is the author of South Asian Partition Fiction in English: From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh, Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
