Colonial Karma: Self, Action, and Nation in the Indian English Novel - Couverture rigide

Rege, J.

 
9781403964007: Colonial Karma: Self, Action, and Nation in the Indian English Novel

Synopsis

Colonial Karma tracks the Indian English novel from its colonial origins to the present, each chapter focusing on a particular historical moment. Linking the novel's development with that of Indian cultural nationalism, it argues that nationalism seeks to solve the problem of action for its middle-class subject by redefining the Bhagavad-Gita's concept of karma for political purposes. Two figures serve to exemplify this problem: Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita and Saleem in Midnight's Children . After considering influential early novels in Indian languages, Colonial Karma discusses novels in English by Narayan, Anand, Rao, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Deshpande and Githa Hariharan.

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À propos de l?auteur

JOSNA REGE is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College, USA.

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