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In Another Country
2002
Overview
In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and production, In Another Country vividly explores a process by which first readers and then writers of the English novel indigenized the once imperial form and put it to their own uses. Asking what nineteenth-century Indian readers chose to read and why, Joshi shows how these readers transformed the literary and cultural influences of empire. By subsequently analyzing the eventual rise of the English novel in India, she further demonstrates how Indian novelists, from Krupa Satthianadhan to Salman Rushdie, took an alien form in an alien language and used it to address local needs. Taken together in this manner, reading and writing reveal the complex ways in which culture is continually translated and transformed in a colonial and postcolonial context.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Subject
/ Anglo-Indian fiction -- History and criticism
/ Books and reading -- India -- History
/ Fiction
/ Fiction -- Appreciation -- India
/ History
/ HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
/ India
/ Indic fiction (English) -- History and criticism
/ Language and culture -- India
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN
0231125844, 9780231125857, 0231125852, 9780231125840, 0231500904, 9780231500906
