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The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Indian Fiction in English explores key trends in Indian fiction in English from the millennium onwards, offering a comprehensive, critical survey of the field.
Indian Fiction in English has undergone significant transformations since the millennium. Now firmly integrated into the global literary market, it speaks to and of an India that continues to rapidly change, socially, culturally, and politically. This timely intervention into the study offers crucial exposure and fundamental analyses of works published by writers such as Jerry Pinto, Nilanjana Roy, Anjum Hasan, Raj Kamal Jha, Kavery Nambisan, Temsula Ao, Chetan Bhagat, Anuradha Roy, R. Raj Rao, Samit Basu, Janice Pariat, Sarnath Banerjee, and Anuja Chauhan. Twenty-five essays and four narrative-interviews by leading and emerging international scholars cover topics such as:
Urban India and place-making in the twenty-first century;
Resistance and struggle across Indian society in the political, corporate, education, and health sectors;
Gender, sexualities, intergenerational relationships, and coming-of-age experiences;
Environmentalism, climate-change, and speculative futures;
Form and style, including analysis of genres such as crime fiction, chick lit, romance as well as graphic narratives, Indian Englishes, and book cover design;
Literary festivals, the publishing scene both lay/commercial and the landscape of academic journals in the field.
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Indian Fiction in English offers a rich exploration of contemporary matters central to the field. It also considers new perspectives and asks challenging questions about the production and circulation of this body of writing. This authoritative collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of post-millennial Indian fiction in English.
Contents
List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction - E. Dawson Varughese; PART I Place-making; 1. Mumbai - Stuti Khanna; 2. New Delhi and Gurgaon - Alex Tickell; 3. Bengaluru - Bangalore - Kiran Keshavamurthy; 4. Kolkata - Abin Chakraborty; 5. Small Town India - Dolores Herrero; 6. North East India - Nandana Dutta; PART II Resistance and Struggle; 7. Resistance and Resilience in post-millennial novels of Political Violence in India - Nadia Butt and Sana Asif; 8. Post-millennial Indian Campus Fiction in English - Nidhi Angurala; 9. Mental Health and Substance Misuse in post-millennial Indian fiction in English - Nitika Gulati; 10. Between Appointments and Resignation: The Nation in Corporate Fiction - Jhilam Chattaraj; PART III Identities and Relationships; 11. Masculinity(ies) and boyhood in the post-millennial Indian novel in English - Beniamin Kłaniecki; 12. Rebels without a cause: coming of age in the New Millennium - Alessandro Vescovi; 13. Mothers, Daughters and the Maternal in Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in English - Indrani Karmakar; 14. Queernesses and Post-millennial Indian fiction in English - J. Daniel Luther and Roshan Johri; 15. Through animal eyes: reinhabiting the literary landscape of post-millennial Urban India Jayaditya Vittal; PART VI Past and Future Indias; 16. Indian Science Fiction in English in the New Millennium - Suparno Banerjee; 17. Desi Dystopias in post-millennial fiction in English - E. Dawson Varughese; 18. Writing the Female Earth Body: Green Écriture in Post-Millennial Indian fiction in English Swarnalatha Rangarajan; 19. Historical Fiction: re-enchanting History in the new millennium - Nikhil Govind; 20. De-mythologising Women in post-millennial re-imaginings of Indian Hindu epics - Varsha Singh and Pooja Agarwal; PART V Genre fictions; 21. Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives in English - Ira Sarma; 22. Desi Bridget Joneses: post-millennial Indian Chick Lit in English - Srijani Ghosh; 23. Post-millennial Indian crime fiction in English - Somdatta Bhattacharya; 24. Post-millennial Indian romance fiction in English - Meghna Prabir; 25. Indian Englishes in post-millennial fiction in English - Birgit Neumann; PART VI Researched narrative-interviews; 26. The New Indian Literature Festival: a conversation with Shinie Antony, Sabin Iqbal and Pervin Saket - Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan; 27. Post-millennial years of publishing in English (with)in India and related activity - Jaya Bhattacharji Rose; 28. Academic Journals, South Asia and the post-millennial dispensation - Claire Chambers; 29. Post-millennial Indian fiction in English and book cover design - Faisal Ahmed; Index
