Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of severe thought and literary creation in modern India. the quantity situates a pattern of consultant novels within the discursive setting of the continuing serious debate on modernity in India, and provides for the 1st time a rigorous try to carry jointly the stimulating impulses of postcolonial concept, subaltern stories and the increase of Indian fiction in English. against the entrenched narrative of modernity as a unmarried, universally legitimate formation originating within the West, the theoretical and literary texts lower than dialogue interact in a shared venture of refiguring the current as a website of heterogeneous genres of modernity. The e-book strains those figurative efforts with specific consciousness to the therapy of 2 privileged metonymies of modernity: the problems of time and home in Indian fiction. Combining shut readings of literary texts from Salman Rushdie to Kiran Nagarkar with a variety of philosophical, sociological and historiographic reflections, Genres of Modernity is of curiosity not just for college students of postcolonial literatures yet for lecturers within the fields of Cultural reviews at huge.
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