Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian FictionWilfrid Laurier University Press, 21.05.2002 - 222 Seiten What do R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi, and Salman Rushdie have in common? They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural nationalists for not writing in native languages, they nonetheless present a critique of the historical and cultural conditions that promoted and sustained writing in English. They also have in common a counterrealist aesthetic that asks its own social, political, and textual questions. This book is about the need to look at the tradition of Indian writing in English from the perspective of counterrealism. The departure from the conventions of mimetic writing not only challenges the limits of realism but also enables Indo-Anglian authors to access formative areas of colonial experience. Kanaganayakam analyzes the fiction of writers who work in this vibrant Indo-Anglian tradition and demonstrates patterns of continuity and change during the last five decades. Each chapter draws attention to what is distinctive about the artifice in each author while pointing to the features that connect them. The book concludes with a study of contemporary writing and its commitment to non-mimetic forms. |
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... Literary India . Counterrealism , although unacknowledged generally as a dis- tinctive strand , needs to be characterized as a tradition . Such a stance raises at least two questions : first , what is the relation between mimetic and ...
... Literary India ( 3-42 ) . Chapter 2 1 In a laudatory introduction , Graham Greene says : “ I don't wait for another novel , I wait to go out of my door into those loved and shabby streets and see with excitement and a certainty of ...
... Literary India : Comparative Studies in Aesthetics , Colonialism , and Culture . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1995 . Hospital , Janet Turner . Review of Shame , by Salman Rushdie . Globe and Mail , 1 October 1983 , E8 ...
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R K Narayan | 29 |
G V Desani | 51 |
Anita Desai | 75 |
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