Fictions of India : narrative and power

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Label

Fictions of India : narrative and power

Title remainder

narrative and power

Statement of responsibility

Peter Morey

Creator

• Morey, Peter

Subject

• English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• India -- In literature
• Anglo-Indian fiction -- History and criticism
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Power (Social sciences) in literature
• Indic fiction (English) -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

"Fictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers dealing with India. It examines the imperial context in which the writers operate and suggests how historical and ideological assumptions and anxieties may be read into the texts they produce. The study combines aspects of colonial and post-colonial debate with narrative theories to illuminate the work of these writers operating on either side of an epistemological divide formed by Indian independence in 1947." "The book focuses largely on British writers on India with chapters on Kipling, E. M. Forster, John Masters, J. G. Farrell and Paul Scott. A final, comparative chapter traces the issues of narrative and power in the work of two post-independence Indian writers - Khushwant Singh and Rohinton Mistry - and deals with the burden of story-telling in a post-colonial situation still fraught with communal and neo-colonial abuses."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

EQO

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction