'An Idea Whose Time Has Come': Indian Fiction in English After 1991

Tickell, Alex (2016). 'An Idea Whose Time Has Come': Indian Fiction in English After 1991. In: Tickell, Alex ed. South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 37–58.

Abstract

This chapter surveys recent Indian English fiction published after India's economic liberalization in 1991. It looks at changing social and publishing contexts of the contemporary novel and discusses works by Manju Kapur, Arundhati Roy, Aravind Adiga and Chetan Bhagat.

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• Item ORO ID
• 46728
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 1-137-40354-3, 978-1-137-40354-4
• Keywords
• Fiction; India; Contemporary Novel; Roy Adiga; Kapur Bhagat; Liberalisation; New India
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• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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• Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group (PGL)
  History of Books and Reading (HOBAR)
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• Alex Tickell