From 1929 to 1997, Rumer Godden published more than 60 books,
including novels, biographies, children's books, and poetry; this
is the first collection devoted to this important transnational
writer. Focusing on Godden's writing from the 1930s onward, the
contributors uncover the breadth and variety of the literary
landscape on display in works such as Black Narcissus, The Lady and
the Unicorn, A Fugue in Time, and The River. Often drawing on her
own experiences living in India and Britain, Godden establishes a
diverse narrative topography that allows her to engage with issues
related to her own uncertain position as an author representing
such nomadic Others as gypsies, or taking up the displacements
brought about by international conflict. Recognizing that studies
of the transnational must consider the condition of enforced and
elected exile within the changing political and cultural borders of
postcolonial nations, the contributors position Godden with respect
to different and overlapping fields of inquiry: modern literary
history; colonial, postcolonial, and transnational studies;
inter-media studies; and children's literature. Taken together, the
essays in this volume demonstrate the richness and variety of
Godden's writing and render the myriad ways in which Godden is an
important critical presence in mid-twentieth-century fiction.
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