Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 A Maverick Scholar: The Writings of Pankaj Mishra
- 2 Commodification of Post-Rushdie Indian Novels in English: Kunal Basu and the Politics of Decanonization
- 3 Marketing Lad Lit, Creating Bestsellers: The Importance of Being Chetan Bhagat
- 4 Vikas Swarup: Writing India in Global Time
- 5 The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy's ‘Made in India’ Bookerboiler
- 6 Aravind Adiga: The White Elephant? Postliberalization, the Politics of Reception and the Globalization of Literary Prizes
- 7 ‘The Multinational's Song’: The Global Reception of M. G. Vassanji
- 8 ‘Shreds of Indianness’: Identity and Representation in Manju Kapur's The Immigrant
- 9 Inside ‘The Temple of Modern Desire’: Recollecting and Relocating Bombay
- 10 Tabish Khair: Marketing Compulsions and Artistic Integrity
- 11 Rohinton Mistry and the Canlit Imperative
- 12 Amitav Ghosh: The Indian Architect of a Postnational Utopia
- 13 Here, There and Everywhere: Vikram Seth's Multiple Literary Constituencies
- 14 Whatever Happened to Kaavya Viswanathan?
- 15 Of Win and Loss: Kiran Desai's Global Storytelling
- 16 Immigrant Desires: Narratives of the Indian Diaspora by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Glossary of Indian Words
- List of Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Commodification of Post-Rushdie Indian Novels in English: Kunal Basu and the Politics of Decanonization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 A Maverick Scholar: The Writings of Pankaj Mishra
- 2 Commodification of Post-Rushdie Indian Novels in English: Kunal Basu and the Politics of Decanonization
- 3 Marketing Lad Lit, Creating Bestsellers: The Importance of Being Chetan Bhagat
- 4 Vikas Swarup: Writing India in Global Time
- 5 The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy's ‘Made in India’ Bookerboiler
- 6 Aravind Adiga: The White Elephant? Postliberalization, the Politics of Reception and the Globalization of Literary Prizes
- 7 ‘The Multinational's Song’: The Global Reception of M. G. Vassanji
- 8 ‘Shreds of Indianness’: Identity and Representation in Manju Kapur's The Immigrant
- 9 Inside ‘The Temple of Modern Desire’: Recollecting and Relocating Bombay
- 10 Tabish Khair: Marketing Compulsions and Artistic Integrity
- 11 Rohinton Mistry and the Canlit Imperative
- 12 Amitav Ghosh: The Indian Architect of a Postnational Utopia
- 13 Here, There and Everywhere: Vikram Seth's Multiple Literary Constituencies
- 14 Whatever Happened to Kaavya Viswanathan?
- 15 Of Win and Loss: Kiran Desai's Global Storytelling
- 16 Immigrant Desires: Narratives of the Indian Diaspora by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Glossary of Indian Words
- List of Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the last PhD entrance test conducted by our department, almost ninety per cent of the 55 students who appeared before the Research Advisory Committee (the board in our university that conducts the test) to defend their proposals expressed their willingness to do the research on writers other than British. Eighty per cent of this ninety per cent, surprisingly, wanted to work on writers of Indian origin. Seventy percent of this eighty per cent chose fiction writers. Availability of research materials and the number of the PhDs done on these writers – which is still no match to the works done on canonical British writers and which, in a way, lessens the burden of the researcher in terms of the review of the existing research works on the writer of his/her choice – may have determined the choice of these candidates who would work in a rural university of a developing country like ours. But their choice of Indian writers writing fiction in English clearly shows how popular these writers have become in Indian academia. Indian English writers started getting global attention when decanonization, both as a theoretical paradigm and as a literary practice, began to shape the production of literary texts across the world. But at the end of the first decade of the twenty first century, one has to admit, decanonization itself has almost taken the shape of a reverse canonization that invariably involves the politics of exclusion/inclusion.
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- Postliberalization Indian Novels in EnglishPolitics of Global Reception and Awards, pp. 9 - 18Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2013