Babu fictions : alienation in contemporary Indian English novels /
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | English |
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Delhi ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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Sommario:
- Contexts of Babu fictions
- Maps of Babu fiction
- The rhetoric of exile
- A cosmopolitan identity: the birthmarks of hybridity
- Language: problems of dialogue and mapping
- Caste: the Hiranyagarbha syndrome
- The urban landscape: neighborhoods, a class apart
- Gender and class: a well-placed displacement
- The Indian and the universal in Raja Rao: making the world
- R.K. Narayan: a view from the window
- V.S. Naipaul: narrating from the empty centre
- Rushdie's recipe for newness
- The example of Amitav Ghosh: (re)establishing connections
- Afterword: conflictual spaces
- Appendices: Imperialism and colonization. Aliens from Marx. Caste and class.