01356nam a2200193 a 45000010008000000080041000080100017000490200015000660400033000810820021001141000019001352450087001542600055002413000026002965040049003225050675003716500050010466500066010963091895091015s2001    enk      b    001 0 eng d  a   00440273   a0195652967  aUKMcUKMdYNGdVVCdDLCdCUY04a823.914093532211 aKhair, Tabish.10aBabu fictions :balienation in contemporary Indian English novels /cTabish Khair.  aDelhi ;aOxford :bOxford University Press,c2001.  axvi, 407 p. ;c22 cm.  aIncludes bibliographic references and index.0 aContexts 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. 0aAlienation (Social psychology) in literature. 0aIndic fiction (English)y20th centuryxHistory and criticism.