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Imagining India [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Literary Criticism)
  • Author:  Cronin, Richard
  • Author:  Cronin, Richard
  • ISBN-10:  0333467051
  • ISBN-10:  0333467051
  • ISBN-13:  9780333467053
  • ISBN-13:  9780333467053
  • Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Mar-1989
  • Pub Date:  01-Mar-1989
  • SKU:  0333467051-11-SPRI
  • SKU:  0333467051-11-SPRI
  • Item ID: 100802140
  • List Price: $169.99
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This book investigates what happens to the English language when it seeks to accommodate India and what happens to India when it is accommodated within the language of a far-off European country. It explores the work of writers from Kipling to Salman Rushdie, Ghandhi to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.Introduction - The English Indian Novel: Kim and Midnight's Children - The Indian English Novel: Nations of Fools and The Man-Eater of Malgudi - Riding the Beast: Ruther Prawer Jhabvala in India - The Quiet and the Loud: Anita Desai's India - The Politics of R.K.Narayan - Indian Trains - Indian Fugues - An Area of Darkness - Indian Autobiography - Sex in the Indian Novel - The Hill of Devi and Heat and Dust - A Passage to India - References - Notes - Index
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