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Babu fictions : alienation in contemporary Indian English novels
- Title
- Babu fictions : alienation in contemporary Indian English novels / Tabish Khair.
- Author
- Khair, Tabish.
- Publication
- Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 407 p.; 22 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 02-8472
- ISBN
- 0195652967
- LCCN
- 00440273
- OCLC
- 45898913
- Author
- Khair, Tabish.
- Title
- Babu fictions : alienation in contemporary Indian English novels / Tabish Khair.
- Imprint
- Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 02-8472