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The Emergency and the Indian English Novel - Memory, Culture and Politics (Paperback)
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The Emergency and the Indian English Novel - Memory, Culture and Politics (Paperback)
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This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency
through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the
Emergency as an event that prompted the writing of several notable
novels attempting to preserve the silenced and fading memory of its
human rights violations and suspension of democracy. The author
reads works by Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Nayantara Sahgal and
Rohinton Mistry in conjunction with government white papers,
political speeches, memoirs, biographies and history. The book
explores the betrayal of the Nehruvian idea of India and democracy
by Indira Gandhi and analyses the political and cultural amnesia
among the general populace in the decades following the Emergency.
At a time when debates around freedom of speech and expression have
become critical to literary and political discourses, this book
will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of English
literature, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, media studies,
political studies, sociology, history and for general readers as
well.
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