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Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel - National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English (Paperback)
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Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel - National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation
and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers
of the 1980s and 90s. Examining writers such as Vikram Seth, Salman
Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, and Rohinton Mistry, with
particularly close readings of Midnight s Children, A Suitable Boy,
The Shadow Lines and The Satanic Verses, Neelam Srivastava
investigates different aspects of postcolonial identity within the
secular framework of the Anglophone novel. The book traces the
breakdown of the Nehruvian secular consensus between 1975 and 2005
through these narratives of postcolonial India. In particular, it
examines how these writers use the novel form to re-write colonial
and nationalist versions of Indian history, and how they radically
reinvent English as a secular language for narrating India.
Ultimately, it delineates a common conceptual framework for
secularism and cosmopolitanism, by arguing that Indian secularism
can be seen as a located, indigenous form of a cosmopolitan
identity.
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