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Indian Genre Fiction - Pasts and Future Histories (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,014
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Indian Genre Fiction - Pasts and Future Histories (Hardcover): Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Aakriti Mandhwani, Anwesha Maity

Indian Genre Fiction - Pasts and Future Histories (Hardcover)

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Aakriti Mandhwani, Anwesha Maity

Series: Studies in Global Genre Fiction

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This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially science fiction/fantasy have slowly made their way into university curricula and consideration by literary critics in India and the West. However, there has been no substantial study of genre fiction in the Indian languages, least of all from a comparative perspective. This volume, with contributions from leading national and international scholars, addresses this lacuna in critical scholarship and provides an overview of diverse genre fictions. Using methods from literary analysis, book history and Indian aesthetic theories, the volume throws light on the variety of contexts in which genre literature is read, activated and used, from political debates surrounding national and regional identities to caste and class conflicts. It shows that Indian genre fiction (including pulp fiction, comics and graphic novels) transmutes across languages, time periods, in translation and through publication processes. While the book focuses on contemporary postcolonial genre literature production, it also draws connections to individual, centuries-long literary traditions of genre literature in the Indian subcontinent. Further, it traces contested hierarchies within these languages as well as current trends in genre fiction criticism. Lucid and comprehensive, this book will be of great interest to academics, students, practitioners, literary critics and historians in the fields of postcolonialism, genre studies, global genre fiction, media and popular culture, South Asian literature, Indian literature, detective fiction, science fiction, romance, crime fiction, horror, mythology, graphic novels, comparative literature and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to the informed general reader.

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Imprint: Routledge India
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Studies in Global Genre Fiction
Release date: June 2018
First published: 2019
Editors: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay • Aakriti Mandhwani • Anwesha Maity
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-55998-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Translation & interpretation > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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LSN: 1-138-55998-9
Barcode: 9781138559981

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