alienation in contemporary Indian English novels Khair, Tabish. creator text bibliography enk Delhi Oxford Oxford University Press 2001 monographic eng

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xvi, 407 p. ; 22 cm. 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. Tabish Khair. Includes bibliographic references and index. Alienation (Social psychology) in literature Indic fiction (English) 20th century History and criticism 823.91409353 0195652967 00440273 UKM 091015 3091895