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Fictions of India - Narrative and Power (Paperback)
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Fictions of India - Narrative and Power (Paperback)
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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
storytelling in a post-colonial situation still fraught with
communal and neo-colonial abuses. This book is an important
contribution to our understanding of how narrative fiction can
reflect and confirm, but also contest and dismantle discourses of
power. Features * Offers new interpretations of well-known texts
and writers * Suggests an agenda for studying new and less
well-known texts to examine the play of narrative and power more
generally * Demonstrates possible relations between narrative
technique and those larger narratives which feed into the operation
of political power * Challenges exclusivist readings which have
often asserted 'the colonial' and 'the post-colonial' to be
antithetical and mutually exclusive discursive entities
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