Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Novels as Aspirational Literature; Chapter One: The Development of Contemporary, English-Language Indian Children's Novels; Chapter Two: Indian Women Writers: Imagining the New Indian Girl; Chapter Three: Imagining Unity in Diversity through Cooperation and Friendship; Chapter Four: Imagining and Performing the Indian Nation; Chapter Five: Imagining "Indianness"; Chapter Six: Imagining Identity in the Diaspora: Performing a "Masala" Self
Chapter Seven: Performing New Indian GirlhoodConclusion: Old and New Boundaries; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children's literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically examines the ways Indian children's writers have represented childhood in relation to the Indian nation, Indian cultural identity, and Indian girlhood. From a framework of postcolonial and feminist theories, children's novels published between 1988 and 2008 in India are compared with those from the United Kingdom and North America from t
