01731nam a2200241 a 4500 3091895 091015s2001 enk b 001 0 eng d 00440273 0195652967 UKM UKM YNG VVC DLC CUY 823.91409353 21 Khair, Tabish. Babu fictions : alienation in contemporary Indian English novels / Tabish Khair. Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001. xvi, 407 p. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographic references and index. 00019387 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. Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. Indic fiction (English) 20th century History and criticism. Ayesha Abed Library General Shelf. 4597 4597 0 0 ddc 1 823_914093530000000_KHA 0 4382 ENH ENH 2009-10-09 1 823.91409353 KHA 3010019387 2014-05-14 2013-02-18 1 2009-10-18 BK Departmental-issued damaged books were found in the ENH department for the reason of termites eaten in 2016