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This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao's writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic writing in the 20th century. In addition to highlighting Rao's significant presence in Indian writing, the volume presents a range of previously unpublished material which contextualises Rao's work within 20th-century modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial trends. Exploring both his fictional and non-fictional works, Reading India in a Transnational Era engages with issues of subaltern agency and national belonging, authenticity, subjectivity, internationalism, multicultural politics, postcolonialism, and literary and cultural representation through language and translation.
A literary volume that discusses gender and identity on both socio-political grounds, apart from dealing with Rao's linguistic experimentations in a transnational era, will be of interest among scholars and researchers of English, postcolonial and world literature, cultural theory, and Asian studies.
Contents
Introduction Part I: Re-routing Raja Rao's Politics, National Identity and Postcolonial Criticism 1. The Lure of Monarchy in the Pursuit of Truth: Raja Rao's Royalism in The Serpent and the Rope 2. From National to Metaphysical: Raja Rao's Idea of India in a Transnational Era 3. Resisting the British Empire: Raja Rao's Two Political Anthologies Changing India and Whither India? 4. Threads of Identity: Caste, Clothing and Community in Raja Rao's Kanthapura 5. The Cat and Shakespeare, the Problem of the Ego-Self, and the Vagaries of Literary Reputation Part II: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and the Novel 6. Comrade Kirillov: 'A New Novel' Newly Understood 7. Women and the Narrative of Nationalism in Raja Rao's The Cow of the Barricades 8. Posthumanism in Raja Rao's The Cat and Shakespeare: Redrawing the Boundaries 9. The Cat and the Chessmaster: Deconstructing 'Play' in Two Novels by Raja Rao 10. The Unknown Quantity: Mathematics and Metaphysics in Raja Rao's The Chessmaster and His Moves Part III: Multicultural Politics, Habitat and Translation 11. 'I Am Not Gandhi': Kanthapura and the Problem of Allegory 12. Nature and Landscape: An Evolutionary Psychological Analysis of Raja Rao's Writing 13. Search in Confusion: Reading Transnational Friendships in Raja Rao's Kanthapura and Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi 14. On Translating Raja Rao in the Transnational Era Part IV: Reminiscences Raja Rao at his Bed Table. Raja Rao: The Untold Story. Poem (for Raja Rao): Krishna. Afterword.
