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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... relation to social realities , and absence of formal sophistication . He identifies the project of writing in the English language as the cultural voice of a particular class , its power in postcolonial India , and its capitulation to ...
... relation to other Indian litera- tures , but also more globally , along lines that Patrick Colm Hogan suggests in Literary India . Counterrealism , although unacknowledged generally as a dis- tinctive strand , needs to be characterized ...
... relationship fail . The children staring at their parents playing bridge are described in a language that conjures up a vortex , of peering into a well . Significantly , Mira , the child - widow , virgin - bride , and poor relation ...
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R K Narayan | 29 |
G V Desani | 51 |
Anita Desai | 75 |
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