Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels (Oxford India Collection) [Paperback]

Tabish Khair (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0195679032 | ISBN-13: 978-0195679038 | Publication Date: December 15, 2005

This book presents readings of contemporary Indian fiction in English, using "discourse" and class divisions in "Babu-Coolie" terms. It includes analyses of writings by such eminent authors as R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh and others.

Editorial Reviews

Review

* '...splendidly written, well researched, and balances theory and critical practice extemely well. The interweaving of literary and social motifs is also deftly accomplished.' -- Terry Eagleton, Oxford University

"Khair is successful in his bid 'to address Indian English texts without mutilating them to fit postcolonial paradigms.'"-- Meenakshi Mukherjee, former Professor, Delhi University

"Khair's study is worlds away from the glossy Sunday supplements. He subjects writers and their works to a barrage of intellectual heavy artillery...Khair writes about the instrinsic, strictly technical, problems of representation that confront Indian writers of English, ever in danger of sounding parodic or patronising about non-Babu Indians." -- Alok Rai, Outlook

"[An] intelligent and argumentative book on contemporary Indian English novels." -- Michael Wood, London Review of Books

About the Author

KHAIR,TABISH

Product Details

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195679032
• ISBN-13: 978-0195679038
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,906,541 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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