George, Rosemary Marangoly creator author. text enk 2013 monographic eng

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1 online resource (294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Rosemary Marangoly George. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). National characteristics, East Indian, in literature Group identity in literature PR9485.5.N27 G46 2013 820.9/954 9781139626903 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626903 UkCbUP 121122 20171019154622.0 CR9781139626903