02197nam a22003378a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141040002400170050002800194082001800222100004100240245011000281246005600391264005200447300005900499336002600558337002600584338003600610500007300646520092300719650005701642650003301699776003501732856007301767999001901840CR9781139626903UkCbUP20171019154622.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||121122s2013||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139626903 (ebook)  z9781107040007 (hardback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aPR9485.5.N27 bG46 201300a820.9/9542231 aGeorge, Rosemary Marangoly,eauthor.10aIndian English and the Fiction of National Literature / [electronic resource]cRosemary Marangoly George.3 aIndian English & the Fiction of National Literature 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2013.  a1 online resource (294 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aDuring 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. 0aNational characteristics, East Indian, in literature 0aGroup identity in literature08iPrint version: z978110704000740uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626903zCambridge Online Library  c227810d227810