South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations by Alex Tickell

By Alex Tickell

This assortment deals an important, dependent survey of up to date fictions of South Asia in English, and comprises particularly commissioned chapters on all of the nationwide traditions of the quarter. It covers much less popular writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in addition to the extra firmly confirmed canon of latest Indian literature, and lines chapters on vital new and emergent varieties comparable to the photo novel, style fiction and the fast tale. It additionally contextualizes a few key ‘transformative’ elements of modern fiction resembling border and diaspora identities; new middle-class narratives and well known genres; and literary reaction to terror and clash. Edited and designed with researchers and scholars in brain, the e-book updates present feedback and represents a readable advisor to a dynamic, quickly altering zone of worldwide literature.

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Indeed, it may be more appropriate to think of ‘middleclassness’ in contemporary India as a self-defining process rather than as a social category (Liechty 2003, p. 20), an approach that allows for a sense of the performativity of social identity and conveys the experience of being middle class as ‘an aspirational way of being’ (Donner 2011: 13). This dynamic model of class is adopted by social commentators like Leela Fernandes, who notes that India’s new middle class is not simply a product of liberalization, although it is undoubtedly shaped by contemporary economic factors.

149). US nationalism, he deduces, supports Indian aggression by legitimizing ‘the invasion of weaker states by more powerful ones’. The nationalist solidarity he experiences upon his return home entails ‘unanimity in the belief that India would do all it could to harm us, and that despite the assistance we have given American in Afghanistan, American would not fight at our side’. It is this that renders him ‘a kind of coward in my own eyes, a traitor’ for returning to the USA and ‘abandon[ing] his people in such circumstances’ (p.

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