| ISBN: | 9780786473083 (softcover : alk. paper) |
| 编目源: | DLC DLC |
| 地理区域代码: | a-ii--- |
| 题名: | Muses India : essays on English-language writers from Mahomet to Rushdie / edited by Chetan Deshmane. |
| 索书号: | I351.06/D456E |
| 载体形态: | viii, 220 pages ; 23 cm |
| 书目附注: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index. |
| 格式化内容附注: | Introduction -- Corporate bodies/colonial exchange: amatory authority and familial extension in the travels of Dean Mahomet / Ken Monteith -- Claiming her own contexts: strategic singularity in the poetry of Tru Dutt / Natalie Phillips Hoffmann -- The body as prism: trauma captured and reflected in Aanita Desai's clear light of day / Katherine Cottle -- "New old Indias?" Bharati Mukherjee's fictional canon and The journey towards the tree bride / Helena Grice -- From history to intertextuality: Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / David Callahan -- Roland Barthes and the judgment of history: a reading of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children and Ben Okri's The famished road / Senayon S. Olaoluwa -- Political satire in a detective mode: genre theory and Rohinton Mistry's Such a long journey / Kaustav Bakshi -- Suicide and rebirth of community in Rohinton Mistry's A fine balance / Sukjoo Sohn -- Transcultural scenarios in Rohinton Mistry's Such a long journey and Neil Bissoondath's A casual brutality / Adriana Elena Stoican -- Householder disintegration and awakening of feminine consciousness: Shashi Desphande's A matter of time / Mark Fabiano -- Identity, language and power in Suniti Namjoshi / Serena Guarracino -- Excessive desire, shattered identities: the outsider's agency in Arundhati Roy's The god of small things / Anna Paige Rogers -- The taboo in Indian literature in English: expanded ways of writing and reading Indianness / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar -- The cultural overcoat in Lahiri's The namesake: diasporic experience and the transnational moment / Hrishikesh Ingle -- "A race of angels": the dialectic of liminality in Kiran Desai's The inheritance of loss / Chetan Deshmane. |