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ISBN13: 9788126932559
Binding: Hardcover
Subject: English Literature
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
Publication Date: May 25, 2021
Pages: 234
Original Price: INR 695.0
Language: English
Edition: N/A
Item Weight: 410 grams
BISAC Subject(s): General

About The Book

The book attempts a re-evaluation of selected Indian fictional works and films in terms of their engagement with history, society, and culture. It seeks to establish how the writers’ and filmmakers’ concerns present facts, reframe the discourse, and disabuse the readers of long held notions and sentiments so that a proper understanding of Indian history, society, and culture comes about. Thus, inevitably marking a departure from and improving upon the usual critical practice of analysing literature and films within the artistic parameters, this book explores broad concerns, such as colonial history, Gandhian ideology, relevance of Bhakti Literature, globalization, gender, dowry system, inter-caste marriages, caste based discrimination, honour killings, subordination of the Dalits, socioeconomic disparities, transition of Indian society, multiculturalism, Bollywood, social responsibility, and hybrid identities of diasporic Indians as depicted in the works of Indian writers and film makers ranging from R.K. Narayan to Jeet Thayil and from Priyadarshan to Prakash Jha. The book will be indubitably useful not just to the students and teachers of English literature, but even to scholars in other disciplines, such as history, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, Dalit studies, and film studies.

About The Author

Rajeshwar Mittapalli, Ph.D., is a Professor of English in Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana, India. He is the author of three acclaimed works of criticism entitled The Novels of Wole Soyinka, Indian Women Novelists and Psychoanalysis and TELUGU: Language and Literature. He has published more than 85 articles in India, USA, Spain, Italy, Hong Kong, South Africa, Germany, Portugal, Singapore, Thailand, and elsewhere in the world. He edited, often with European and American scholars, 25 anthologies of essays on a variety of literary subjects. These edited volumes include Modern Criticism (co-edited with Christopher Rollason, UK), V.S. Naipaul: Fiction and Travel Writing (co-edited with Michael Hensen, Germany), Salman Rushdie: New Critical Insights, vols. 1-2 (co-edited with Joel Kuortti, Finland), The Fiction of Raja Rao (co-edited with Pier Paolo Piciucco, Italy), Postcolonial Indian Fiction in English and Masculinity (co-edited with Letizia Alterno, UK), and The Male Empire Under the Female Gaze: The British Raj and the Memsahib brought out by the Amherst, NY based Cambria Press (co-edited with Susmita Roye, USA). Apart from these books he has also edited several volumes of the Atlantic Literary Review (quarterly) and Kakatiya Journal of English Studies (annual).

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Re-presentations of Colonialism in Indian Fiction in English
2. Rewriting the Nation from the Margins: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things as a Social Document
3. A Fictional Portrait of Pre-Independence Telangana: Dasarathi Rangacharya’s The Lesser Deities
4. Subaltern Subjectivity and Resistance: Dalit Social History in Postcolonial Indian Fiction in English
5. Challenge to the Gender Binary or Survival Strategy? The Hijras in History and Fiction
6. Globalization, Indian Fiction in English and Regional Literatures
7. Bhakti Literature and Recent Indian Fiction: The Politics and Poetics of Protest
8. Text and the Social Context: Critical Realism in Vasireddy Sita Devi’s Man of the Soil
9. Premchand and Gandhian Ideology: The Dalit Strand in Godan
10. ‘Honour’ Killings and the Dalits in Fiction and Films: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Priyadarshan’s Aakrosh
11. The Subaltern Saga Continues: Politics of Silence and Poetics of Articulation in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
12. The Emergence of Dalit Hero in Bollywood Films
13. Legislating Love and Monetising Marriage: Deciphering the Caste Conundrum in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
14. R.K. Narayan’s The Guide: An Apology for Masculinity
15. Performative Masculinity and its Perils in Three Novels: Fasting, Feasting, A Handful of Rice and English, August: An Indian Story
16. Persian Contribution to Indian Multiculturalism: Focus on Parsi Fiction
17. Hybrid Identities in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies

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