The Emergency and the Indian English Novel (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
266
Utgivningsdatum
2020-12-18
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Routledge India
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213 x 137 x 18 mm
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318 g
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1
ISBN
9780367728717

The Emergency and the Indian English Novel

Memory, Culture and Politics

av Raita Merivirta
Häftad,  Engelska, 2020-12-18
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This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event that prompted the writing of several notable novels attempting to preserve the silenced and fading memory of its human rights violations and suspension of democracy. The author reads works by Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Nayantara Sahgal and Rohinton Mistry in conjunction with government white papers, political speeches, memoirs, biographies and history. The book explores the betrayal of the Nehruvian idea of India and democracy by Indira Gandhi and analyses the political and cultural amnesia among the general populace in the decades following the Emergency. At a time when debates around freedom of speech and expression have become critical to literary and political discourses, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, media studies, political studies, sociology, history and for general readers as well.
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Raita Merivirtas The Emergency and the Indian English Novel is a significant contribution to the study of Indian English fiction. It persuaded me to rethink some of my ideas about a group of novels I thought I knew well. Ralph Crane, Professor of English, University of Tasmania, Australia "Raita Merivirtas The Emergency and the Indian English Novel is a significant contribution to the study of Indian English fiction. It persuaded me to rethink some of my ideas about a group of novels I thought I knew well." Ralph Crane, Professor of English, University of Tasmania, Australia

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Raita Merivirta is an Endeavour Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is one of the authors of Frontiers of Screen History: Imagining European Borders in Cinema.

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Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Midnights Children: preserving memories for the amnesiac nation 3. Safeguarding democracy in The Great Indian Novel 4. Family ties: nepotism and corruption in Rich Like Us 5. The Repressive State Apparatus in Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance 6. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

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