The Resource Cultural imperialism and the Indo-English novel : genre and ideology in R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie
Cultural imperialism and the Indo-English novel : genre and ideology in R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie
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- Summary
- Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology and the generic fictive strategies that shape ideology or are shaped by it. Fawzia Afzal-Khan raises the important question of how much the usage of certain ideological strategies actually helps the ex-colonized writer deal effectively with postcolonial and postindependence trauma and whether or not the choice of a particular genre or mode employed by a writer presupposes the extent to which that writer will be successful in challenging the ideological strategies of "containment" perpetuated by most Western "orientalist" texts and writers. She argues that the formal or generic choices of the four writers studied here reveal that they are using genre as an ideological "strategy of liberation" to help free their peoples and cultures from the hegemonic strategies of "containment" imposed upon them. She concludes that the works studied here constitute an ideological rebuttal of Western writers' denigrating "containment" of non-Western cultures. She also notes that self-criticism, as implied in Rushdie's works, is not be confused with self-hatred, a theme found in Naipaul's work
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Note
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Contents
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 R. K. Narayan: The Realm of Mythic Realism
- 2 Anita Desai: The Morality of Realism Versus the Aestheticism of Myth
- 3 Kamala Markandaya: Myth Versus Realism or East Versus West
- 4 Salman Rushdie: The Debunking of Myth
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index
- Isbn
- 9780271072210
- Label
- Cultural imperialism and the Indo-English novel : genre and ideology in R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie
- Title
- Cultural imperialism and the Indo-English novel : genre and ideology in R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie
- Subject
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- Desai, Anita, 1937-
- Electronic books
- English
- English Literature
- History
- Imperialism in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- India
- Indic fiction (English)
- Indic fiction (English) -- India -- History and criticism -- 20th century
- 1900-1999
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Languages & Literatures
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- History
- Markandaya, Kamala, 1924-2004
- Narayan, R. K, 1906-2001
- Rushdie, Salman
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology and the generic fictive strategies that shape ideology or are shaped by it. Fawzia Afzal-Khan raises the important question of how much the usage of certain ideological strategies actually helps the ex-colonized writer deal effectively with postcolonial and postindependence trauma and whether or not the choice of a particular genre or mode employed by a writer presupposes the extent to which that writer will be successful in challenging the ideological strategies of "containment" perpetuated by most Western "orientalist" texts and writers. She argues that the formal or generic choices of the four writers studied here reveal that they are using genre as an ideological "strategy of liberation" to help free their peoples and cultures from the hegemonic strategies of "containment" imposed upon them. She concludes that the works studied here constitute an ideological rebuttal of Western writers' denigrating "containment" of non-Western cultures. She also notes that self-criticism, as implied in Rushdie's works, is not be confused with self-hatred, a theme found in Naipaul's work
- Cataloging source
- VLY
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Afzal-Khan, Fawzia
- Dewey number
- 823
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- PR9492.2.A4 1993
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Indic fiction (English)
- Literature and society
- Imperialism in literature
- Desai, Anita
- Markandaya, Kamala
- Narayan, R. K
- Rushdie, Salman
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Imperialism in literature
- Indic fiction (English)
- Literature and society
- India
- English
- Languages & Literatures
- English Literature
- Label
- Cultural imperialism and the Indo-English novel : genre and ideology in R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie
- Note
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Contents
- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 R. K. Narayan: The Realm of Mythic Realism -- 2 Anita Desai: The Morality of Realism Versus the Aestheticism of Myth -- 3 Kamala Markandaya: Myth Versus Realism or East Versus West -- 4 Salman Rushdie: The Debunking of Myth -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index
- Control code
- 1162027696
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780271072210
- Media category
- computer
- Media type code
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- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv14g2hqw
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1162027696
- Label
- Cultural imperialism and the Indo-English novel : genre and ideology in R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie
- Note
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Contents
- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 R. K. Narayan: The Realm of Mythic Realism -- 2 Anita Desai: The Morality of Realism Versus the Aestheticism of Myth -- 3 Kamala Markandaya: Myth Versus Realism or East Versus West -- 4 Salman Rushdie: The Debunking of Myth -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index
- Control code
- 1162027696
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780271072210
- Media category
- computer
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv14g2hqw
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1162027696
Subject
- Desai, Anita, 1937-
- Electronic books
- English
- English Literature
- History
- Imperialism in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- India
- Indic fiction (English)
- Indic fiction (English) -- India -- History and criticism -- 20th century
- 1900-1999
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Languages & Literatures
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- History
- Markandaya, Kamala, 1924-2004
- Narayan, R. K, 1906-2001
- Rushdie, Salman
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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