Alex Tickell is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University and Director of the OU's Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group. He taught previously at the University of Leeds and the University of York. He specialises in the Anglophone literary histories of South Asia and South East Asia and conjunctions of literature and politics, and is the author of Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature: 1830 -1947 (Routledge: 2013). Dr Tickell also researches contemporary Indian fiction and has published a guide to Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (Routledge: 2007) and edited a collection, South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations (Palgrave 2016).

• General Editor's Preface Alex Tickell: Introduction Part I: South Asia 1: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan: The Novel of India 2: Claire Chambers: The Novel of Pakistan 3: Ruvani Ranasinha: The Novel of Sri Lanka 4: Kaiser Haq: The Novel of Bangladesh 5: Abhijit Gupta: Publishing and the History of the Book in South Asia Themes and Genres 6: Antoinette Burton: End of Empire Histories in the post-1945 Novel 7: Tabish Khair: History and the South Asian Novel 8: Shuchi Kapila: Fiction and the Borderland: Partitions and Frontiers 9: Kavita Daiya: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family in South Asian Fiction 10: Kanishka Chowdhury: Globalization and the South Asian Novel 11: Sharae Deckard: Land, Water, Waste: Environment and Ecology in South Asian Fiction 12: Toral Gajarawala: Caste Logics: Categorization, Combination, and the Contemporary Novel 13: Priya Joshi: Genre Fiction in India 14: Charlotta Salmi: The Graphic Novel in South Asia Key Authors 15: G. J. V. Prasad: R. K. Narayan 16: Shirley Chew: Anita Desai 17: Florian Stadtler: Salman Rushdie 18: Chitra Sankaran: Amitav Ghosh Part II: South East Asia 19: Jeffrey Mather: The Novel of Mainland China 20: Elaine Yee Lin Ho: The Novel of Hong Kong 21: May Jurilla: The Novel of the Philippines 22: Andrew Hock Soon Ng: The Novel of Malaysia 23: Philip Holden: The Novel of Singapore 24: Pavan Kumar Malreddy: The Novel of Myanmar 25: Lily Rose Tope: Language Policy, Publishing, and Book History in South East Asia Themes and Genres 26: Andrew Biswell: Writing Imperial Decline in South East Asia 27: Sharmani Patricia Gabriel and Alex Tickell: History, Memory, and Cultural Identity in the Novel of South East Asia 28: Ismail Talib: Language in the Malaysian and Singaporean Novel in English 29: Alex Tickell: Life-Writing, Testimony, and Biographical Fiction 30: Derek C. Maus: Cold War Novels: Korea and Vietnam 31: Kelly Yin Nga Tse: Genre Fiction in South East Asia: Chick Lit and Crime Fiction 32: Cheng Tju Lim: The Graphic Novel in South East Asia Key Authors 33: Xiaojue Wang: Eileen Chang 34: Angelia Poon Mui Cheng: Timothy Mo 35: Maria Luisa Torres Reyes: F. Sionil José 36: Eddie Tay: K. S. Maniam and Tash Aw Part III: Cross-Border Fictions 37: Anastasia Valassopoulos: The Novel of the Middle East 38: Prem Poddar: The Indian Ocean Novel 39: Sudesh Mishra: Narrating the Global South Asian Diaspora 40: Weihsin Gui: Narrating the Global South East Asian Diaspora 41: Shafquat Towheed: Publishing the South and South East Asian Novel in the Global Market Works Cited

Alex Tickell is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University and Director of the OU's Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group. He taught previously at the University of Leeds and the University of York. He specialises in the Anglophone literary histories of South Asia and South East Asia and conjunctions of literature and politics, and is the author of Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature: 1830 -1947 (Routledge: 2013). Dr Tickell also researches contemporary Indian fiction and has published a guide to Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (Routledge: 2007) and edited a collection, South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations (Palgrave 2016).

• General Editor's Preface Alex Tickell: Introduction Part I: South Asia 1: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan: The Novel of India 2: Claire Chambers: The Novel of Pakistan 3: Ruvani Ranasinha: The Novel of Sri Lanka 4: Kaiser Haq: The Novel of Bangladesh 5: Abhijit Gupta: Publishing and the History of the Book in South Asia Themes and Genres 6: Antoinette Burton: End of Empire Histories in the post-1945 Novel 7: Tabish Khair: History and the South Asian Novel 8: Shuchi Kapila: Fiction and the Borderland: Partitions and Frontiers 9: Kavita Daiya: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family in South Asian Fiction 10: Kanishka Chowdhury: Globalization and the South Asian Novel 11: Sharae Deckard: Land, Water, Waste: Environment and Ecology in South Asian Fiction 12: Toral Gajarawala: Caste Logics: Categorization, Combination, and the Contemporary Novel 13: Priya Joshi: Genre Fiction in India 14: Charlotta Salmi: The Graphic Novel in South Asia Key Authors 15: G. J. V. Prasad: R. K. Narayan 16: Shirley Chew: Anita Desai 17: Florian Stadtler: Salman Rushdie 18: Chitra Sankaran: Amitav Ghosh Part II: South East Asia 19: Jeffrey Mather: The Novel of Mainland China 20: Elaine Yee Lin Ho: The Novel of Hong Kong 21: May Jurilla: The Novel of the Philippines 22: Andrew Hock Soon Ng: The Novel of Malaysia 23: Philip Holden: The Novel of Singapore 24: Pavan Kumar Malreddy: The Novel of Myanmar 25: Lily Rose Tope: Language Policy, Publishing, and Book History in South East Asia Themes and Genres 26: Andrew Biswell: Writing Imperial Decline in South East Asia 27: Sharmani Patricia Gabriel and Alex Tickell: History, Memory, and Cultural Identity in the Novel of South East Asia 28: Ismail Talib: Language in the Malaysian and Singaporean Novel in English 29: Alex Tickell: Life-Writing, Testimony, and Biographical Fiction 30: Derek C. Maus: Cold War Novels: Korea and Vietnam 31: Kelly Yin Nga Tse: Genre Fiction in South East Asia: Chick Lit and Crime Fiction 32: Cheng Tju Lim: The Graphic Novel in South East Asia Key Authors 33: Xiaojue Wang: Eileen Chang 34: Angelia Poon Mui Cheng: Timothy Mo 35: Maria Luisa Torres Reyes: F. Sionil José 36: Eddie Tay: K. S. Maniam and Tash Aw Part III: Cross-Border Fictions 37: Anastasia Valassopoulos: The Novel of the Middle East 38: Prem Poddar: The Indian Ocean Novel 39: Sudesh Mishra: Narrating the Global South Asian Diaspora 40: Weihsin Gui: Narrating the Global South East Asian Diaspora 41: Shafquat Towheed: Publishing the South and South East Asian Novel in the Global Market Works Cited

Alex Tickell is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University and Director of the OU's Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group. He taught previously at the University of Leeds and the University of York. He specialises in the Anglophone literary histories of South Asia and South East Asia and conjunctions of literature and politics, and is the author of Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature: 1830 -1947 (Routledge: 2013). Dr Tickell also researches contemporary Indian fiction and has published a guide to Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (Routledge: 2007) and edited a collection, South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations (Palgrave 2016).

• General Editor's Preface Alex Tickell: Introduction Part I: South Asia 1: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan: The Novel of India 2: Claire Chambers: The Novel of Pakistan 3: Ruvani Ranasinha: The Novel of Sri Lanka 4: Kaiser Haq: The Novel of Bangladesh 5: Abhijit Gupta: Publishing and the History of the Book in South Asia Themes and Genres 6: Antoinette Burton: End of Empire Histories in the post-1945 Novel 7: Tabish Khair: History and the South Asian Novel 8: Shuchi Kapila: Fiction and the Borderland: Partitions and Frontiers 9: Kavita Daiya: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family in South Asian Fiction 10: Kanishka Chowdhury: Globalization and the South Asian Novel 11: Sharae Deckard: Land, Water, Waste: Environment and Ecology in South Asian Fiction 12: Toral Gajarawala: Caste Logics: Categorization, Combination, and the Contemporary Novel 13: Priya Joshi: Genre Fiction in India 14: Charlotta Salmi: The Graphic Novel in South Asia Key Authors 15: G. J. V. Prasad: R. K. Narayan 16: Shirley Chew: Anita Desai 17: Florian Stadtler: Salman Rushdie 18: Chitra Sankaran: Amitav Ghosh Part II: South East Asia 19: Jeffrey Mather: The Novel of Mainland China 20: Elaine Yee Lin Ho: The Novel of Hong Kong 21: May Jurilla: The Novel of the Philippines 22: Andrew Hock Soon Ng: The Novel of Malaysia 23: Philip Holden: The Novel of Singapore 24: Pavan Kumar Malreddy: The Novel of Myanmar 25: Lily Rose Tope: Language Policy, Publishing, and Book History in South East Asia Themes and Genres 26: Andrew Biswell: Writing Imperial Decline in South East Asia 27: Sharmani Patricia Gabriel and Alex Tickell: History, Memory, and Cultural Identity in the Novel of South East Asia 28: Ismail Talib: Language in the Malaysian and Singaporean Novel in English 29: Alex Tickell: Life-Writing, Testimony, and Biographical Fiction 30: Derek C. Maus: Cold War Novels: Korea and Vietnam 31: Kelly Yin Nga Tse: Genre Fiction in South East Asia: Chick Lit and Crime Fiction 32: Cheng Tju Lim: The Graphic Novel in South East Asia Key Authors 33: Xiaojue Wang: Eileen Chang 34: Angelia Poon Mui Cheng: Timothy Mo 35: Maria Luisa Torres Reyes: F. Sionil José 36: Eddie Tay: K. S. Maniam and Tash Aw Part III: Cross-Border Fictions 37: Anastasia Valassopoulos: The Novel of the Middle East 38: Prem Poddar: The Indian Ocean Novel 39: Sudesh Mishra: Narrating the Global South Asian Diaspora 40: Weihsin Gui: Narrating the Global South East Asian Diaspora 41: Shafquat Towheed: Publishing the South and South East Asian Novel in the Global Market Works Cited