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020			_a9781139626903 (ebook)
020			_z9781107040007 (hardback)
020			_z9781316623077 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aPR9485.5.N27 _bG46 2013
082	0	0	_a820.9/954 _223
100	1		_aGeorge, Rosemary Marangoly, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIndian English and the Fiction of National Literature / _cRosemary Marangoly George.
246	3		_aIndian English & the Fiction of National Literature
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (298 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aDuring the twentieth century, at the height of the independence movement and after, Indian literary writing in English was entrusted with the task of consolidating the image of a unified, seemingly caste-free, modernising India for consumption both at home and abroad. This led to a critical insistence on the proximity of the national and the literary, which in turn, led to the canonisation of certain writers and themes and the dismissal of others. Examining English anthologies of 'Indian literature', as well as the establishment of the Sahitya Akademi (the national academy of letters) and the work of R. K. Narayan and Mulk Raj Anand among others, Rosemary George exposes the painstaking efforts that went into the elaboration of a 'national literature' in English for independent India even while deliberating the fundamental limitations of using a nation-centric critical framework for reading literary works.
650		0	_aNational characteristics, East Indian, in literature
650		0	_aGroup identity in literature
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107040007
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626903
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37474 _d37474