Decentering Rushdie : cosmopolitanism and the Indian novel in English / Pranav Jani
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TextPublication details: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, 2010Description: xi, 275 p. 24 cmISBN: - 9780814211335
- Cosmopolitanism -- India
- Cosmopolitanism in literature
- Desai, Anita, 1937 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Indic fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Markandaya, Kamala, 1924 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Postcolonialism -- India
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Roy, Arundhati -- Criticism and interpretation
- Rushdie, Salman -- Criticism and interpretation
- Sahgal, Nayantara, 1927 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Decentering Rushdie suggests an alternative understanding of the genre in postcolonial India. Pranav Jani documents the broad shift from nation-oriented to postnationalist perspectives following the watershed crisis of the Emergency of the 1970s. Recovering the namak-halaal cosmopolitanism of early novels--a cosmopolitanism that is true to its salt--Decentering Rushdie also explains the rise and critical celebration of postnational cosmopolitanism. Decentering Rushdie thus resituates contemporary literature within a nuanced history of Indian debates about cosmopolitanism and the national question. In the process, Jani articulates definitions of cosmopolitanism and nationalism that speak to the complex negotiation of language, culture, and representation in postcolonial South Asia
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