Amsterdam University Press Writing India Anew: Indian English Fiction 2000-2010: 17 (ICAS Publications series)

This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Some of the most prominent scholars in the field, including Rimi B. Chatterjee, Bill Ashcroft and Shirley Chew, explore a range of themes that extend from the re-mapping of mythology and history to reassessing the globalised India of today. Together, they contend that the current body of work of Indian-English literature is so varied and vibrant that it can no longer be dismissed as derivative or dispossessed. Instead, they regard this new corpus of writing to be a major aspect of contemporary Anglophone literature. Ultimately, the contributors contend that the current body of work in Indian-English fiction is so varied and vibrant that it can no longer be dismissed as derivative or dispossessed, or even as mere postcolonial 'writing back' or compensatory national allegory. Review "Such exciting scholarship on new and emerging literary genres along with critical discussions of how [Indian English fiction] has changed in the last decade are most welcome in the ever-expanding field of critical writing on fiction from or about India in the English language." -- "The Newsletter, International Institute for Asian Studies" From the Inside Flap This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Some of the most prominent scholars in the field, including Rimi B. Chatterjee, Bill Ashcroft and Shirley Chew, explore a range of themes that extend from the re-mapping of mythology and history to reassessing the globalised India of today. Together, they contend that the current body of work of Indian-English literature is so varied and vibrant that it can no longer be dismissed as derivative or dispossessed. Instead, they regard this new corpus of writing to be a major aspect of contemporary Anglophone literature. Ultimately, the contributors contend that the current body of work in Indian-English fiction is so varied and vibrant that it can no longer be dismissed as derivative or dispossessed, or even as mere postcolonial 'writing back' or compensatory national allegory. From the Back Cover In deze uitgave wordt het Indiaas-Engelse fictiegenre van het eerste decennium van deze eeuw nader bekeken. Deze studie is de eerste in zijn soort en bevat artikelen van enkele van de meest prominente wetenschappers op dit gebied. Hedendaagse Indiaas-Engelse fictie is zo gevarieerd en levendig dat het niet meer kan worden afgedaan als afgeleide van postkoloniale fictie of nationale allegorie. In vijftien essays wordt in dit boek beargumenteerd dat het nieuwe corpus ervoor zorgt dat de theoretische kaders herschreven moet worden. Indiaas-Engelse fictie moet beschouwd worden als een nieuw en belangrijk onderdeel van de hedendaagse Engelstalige literatuur. De essays verkennen een reeks thema's, variërend van de herschrijving van mythologie en geschiedenis tot de herbeoordeling van het hedendaagse India. Ook komen technische experimenten aan bod, zoals de heruitvinding van de epiek, om vervolgens uitstapjes te maken naar de sciencefiction en de graphic novel. - Krishna Sen is decaan van de Faculteit der Letteren van de University of Western Australia. - Rituparna Roy is docent Engelse literatuur aan het Basantidevi College, Kolkata, India, en Fellow van het International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Amsterdam. About the Author Krishna Sen is professor and former head of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, and founder member of the University’s Women’s Studies Research Centre. Rituparna Roy has been a Lecturer in English Literature at Basantidevi College, Kolkata, India; and recently, an Affiliated Fellow at The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Amsterdam. She is the author of South Asian Partition Fiction in English: From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh, Amste