| Fictions of India: Narrative and Power Contributor(s): Morey, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0748611819 ISBN-13: 9780748611812 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $38.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: "Fictions of India" explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power. The book centers largely around British writers on India with chapters on Kipling, E. M. Forster, John Masters, J. G. Farrell, and Paul Scott. A final, comparative chapter discusses the work of two postindependence Indian writers -- Khushwant Singh and Rohinton Mistry -- and deals with the burden of storytelling in a postcolonial situation still fraught with communal and neocolonial abuses. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Indic - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.910 |
| LCCN: 2001369162 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.08" W x 9.18" (0.76 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers dealing with India. It examines the imperial context in which the writers operate and suggests how historical and ideological assumptions and anxieties may be read into the texts they produce. The study combines aspects of colonial and post-colonial debate with narrative theories to illuminate the work of these writers operating on either side of an epistemological divide formed by Indian independence in 1947. The book focuses largely on British writers on India with chapters on Kipling, E.M. Forster, John Masters, J.G. Farrell and Paul Scott. A final, comparative chapter traces the issues of narrative and power in the work of two post-independence Indian writers - Khushwant Singh and Rohinton Mistry - and deals with the burden of storytelling in a post-colonial situation still fraught with communal and neo-colonial abuses.This book is an important contribution to our understanding of how narrative fiction can reflect and confirm, but also contest and dismantle discourses of power.Features* Offers new interpretations of well-known texts and writers* Suggests an agenda for studying new and less well-known texts to examine the play of narrative and power more generally* Demonstrates possible relations between narrative technique and those larger narratives which feed into the operation of political power* Challenges exclusivist readings which have often asserted 'the colonial' and 'the post-colonial' to be antithetical and mutually exclusive discursive entities |