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- catalog abstract ""Khair presents a reading of contemporary Indian fiction in English that sets out to study whether it is possible to write in English about people who often speak little or no English. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of Indian English fiction, sociologists, literature critics as well as general readers."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12099976.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Khair presents a reading of contemporary Indian fiction in English that sets out to study whether it is possible to write in English about people who often speak little or no English. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of Indian English fiction, sociologists, literature critics as well as general readers."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [376]-393) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 407 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195652967".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Indic fiction (English) 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR9492 (P-PZ21:.6.A45)+".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Babu fictions : alienation in contemporary Indian English novels / Tabish Khair.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".