Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures) Book

This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and 90s. Examining writers such as Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, and Rohinton Mistry, with particularly close readings of Midnight’s Children, A Suitable Boy, The Shadow Lines and The Satanic Verses, Neelam Srivastava investigates different aspects of postcolonial identity within the secular framework of the Anglophone novel. The book traces the breakdown of the Nehruvian secular consensus between 1975 and 2005 through these narratives of postcolonial India. In particular, it examines how these writers use the novel form to re-write colonial and nationalist versions of Indian history, and how they radically … read more...
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