Babu fictions : alienation in contemporary Indian English novels / Tabish Khair.
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TextPublication details: Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.Description: xvi, 407 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0195652967
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| 823.914 LES The golden notebook / | 823.914 NAI The enigma of arrival : | 823.914 WIN Oranges are not the only fruit / | 823.91409353 KHA Babu fictions : | 823 DES In custody / | 823 DES Fraility, thy name is woman : | 891.1 FIV Five novellas by women writers : |
Includes bibliographic references and index.
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.
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