The Oxford history of the novel in english is a volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' Novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, and tendencies. South and South East Asia has produced some of the most dynamic, experimental, and commercially successful English-language novels of the post-war period. This wide-ranging volume, which comprises specially commissioned chapters from critics working in the fields of postcolonial and global literature, covers key authors, National traditions, and major themes and genres, providing an unrivalled survey of the South and South East Asian Anglophone novel. The Oxford history of the novel in English: volume 10. The novel in South and South East Asia since 1945 employs a unique three-part structure covering South Asia, South East Asia, and 'cross-border' Fictions and is the first work of its kind to provide a single comparative assessment of the novel across South and South East Asia, and in migrant lines of travel in and beyond these regions. Both an introduction and a scholarly resource, it covers internationally recognized novelists but also showcases forgotten, under-represented writers and their works. The volume provides comprehensive survey chapters on individual National traditions, comprising the Anglophone novel of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, mainland China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Myanmar. Its historical and geographical reach takes in late colonial fictions, war-novels of Korea and Vietnam, and autobiographical fictions of the Chinese cultural revolution; its formal scope spans multi-volume historical epics, political fictions, and graphic novels. The development of the South and South East Asian novel in English is further contextualized in chapters on publishing and book history, and new forms of genre fiction, making this volume an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and General readers.
Alex Tickell is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University and Director of the OU's Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group. He taught previously at the University of Leeds and the University of York. He specialises in the Anglophone literary histories of South Asia and South East Asia and conjunctions of literature and politics, and is the author of Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature: 1830 -1947 (Routledge: 2013). Dr Tickell also researches contemporary Indian fiction and has published a guide to Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (Routledge: 2007) and edited a collection, South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations (Palgrave 2016). Contributors: Andrew Biswell, Manchester Metropolitan University Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois Claire Chambers, University of York Shirley Chew, Nanyang Technological University Kanishka Chowdhury, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota College of Arts and Sciences Kavita Daiya, The George Washington University, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Sharae Deckard, University College Dublin Sharmani Gabriel, University of Malaya Toral Gajarawala, New York University Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University Weihsin Gui, University of California, Riverside Kaiser Haq, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh Elaine Yee Lin Ho, University of Hong Kong Philip Holden, National University Of Singapore. Priya Joshi, Temple University May Jurilla, University of the Philippines Shuchi Kapila, Grinnell College Tabish Khair, Aarhus University Cheng Tju Lim, Country Editor (Singapore) International Journal of Comic Art Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Jeffrey Mather, City University of Hong Kong Derek Maus, State University of New York at Potsdam Sudesh Mishra, The University of the South Pacific Andrew Hock Soon Ng, Monash University Malaysia Prem Poddar, Roskilde University Angelia Poon Mui Cheng, Nanyang Technological University G. J. V. Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, New York University Ruvani Ranasinha, King's College London Maria Luisa Torres Reyes, Ateneo de Manila University Charlotta Salmi, Queen Mary University of London Chitra Sankaran, National University Of Singapore. Florian Stadtler, University of Exeter Ismail Talib, National University of Singapore Eddie Tay, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Lily Rose Tope, University of the Philippines Shafquat Towheed, The Open University Kelly Yin Nga Tse, St Antony's College, University of Oxford Alex Tickell, The Open University Anastasia Valassopoulos, University of Manchester Xiaojue Wang, Rutgers University.
