Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel
Bhattacharya, Sourit
Produktnummer:
1836f60e4fa32d4078bc9dd5b00cc5a574
| Autor: | Bhattacharya, Sourit |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | 1943-44 Bengal famine British Raj British modernisation programmes Catastrophic realism Indian fiction Indian novels Modes of realism Naxalbari Movement Postcolonial modernity State of Emergency |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 29.05.2021 |
| EAN: | 9783030373993 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 280 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Untertitel: | On Catastrophic Realism |
Produktinformationen "Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel"
This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine, the 1967–72 Naxalbari Movement, and the 1975–77 Indian Emergency, it shows that there is a long-term, colonially-engineered agrarian crisis enabling these catastrophic events. Novelists such as Bhabani Bhattacharya, Mahasweta Devi, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Nabarun Bhattacharya, and Nayantara Sahgal, among others, have captured the relationship between the long-term crisis and the catastrophic aspects of the events through different aesthetic modalities within realism, ranging from analytical-affective, critical realist, quest modes to apparently non-realist ones such as metafictional, urban fantastic, magical realist, and others. These realist modalities are together read here as postcolonial catastrophic realism.
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