02197nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139626903 UkCbUP 20171019154622.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121122s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139626903 (ebook) 9781107040007 (hardback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PR9485.5.N27 G46 2013 820.9/954 23 George, Rosemary Marangoly, author. Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature / [electronic resource] Rosemary Marangoly George. Indian English & the Fiction of National Literature Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). During the twentieth century, at the height of the independence movement and after, Indian literary writing in English was entrusted with the task of consolidating the image of a unified, seemingly caste-free, modernising India for consumption both at home and abroad. This led to a critical insistence on the proximity of the national and the literary, which in turn, led to the canonisation of certain writers and themes and the dismissal of others. Examining English anthologies of 'Indian literature', as well as the establishment of the Sahitya Akademi (the national academy of letters) and the work of R. K. Narayan and Mulk Raj Anand among others, Rosemary George exposes the painstaking efforts that went into the elaboration of a 'national literature' in English for independent India even while deliberating the fundamental limitations of using a nation-centric critical framework for reading literary works. National characteristics, East Indian, in literature Group identity in literature Print version: 9781107040007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626903 Cambridge Online Library 227810 227810