Srivastava Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel

National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-134-14220-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Srivastava, Neelam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter One: Theories of Secularism

Chapter Two: Minority Identity in India: Midnight’s Children and A Suitable Boy

Chapter Three: Secularism and Syncretism in The Shadow Lines and The Satanic Verses

Chapter Four: Allegory and Realism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel

Chapter Five: The Historical Event in the Postcolonial Indian Novel –I

Chapter Six: The Historical Event in the Postcolonial Indian Novel – II

Chapter Seven: Languages of the Nation in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy

Chapter Eight: Cosmopolitanism and Globalization in Rushdie and Seth

Über Autor(innen)

Neelam Srivastava is lecturer in postcolonial literature at Newcastle University, UK. She has published on Indian literature in English and anti-colonial cinema, and has co-edited a special issue of the journal Interventions on colonial and postcolonial Italy.