| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- The Colonial/Constitutional Context -- The Political Context -- The Social Context -- The Context of Corruption -- 1. Englishwala Politics -- The Emergency in English -- Seminar: The Sound of Silence -- Quest: Not with a Bang, but with a Whimper -- Satyavani: Forming a Political Alliance -- India Today: Depoliticizing Journalism -- Conclusion -- 2. Family First -- Family Planning -- Writing the Dynasty: Nayantara Sahgal -- 3. Realism |
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A Situation in New Delhi: Realism of the Ruling Elite -- The Twice Born Fiction: Realist Criticism -- A Fine Balance: A Return to Emergency, Realism, and Reification -- 4. Epic -- Temporal Tensions: Mythic Past and Historical Present -- Narrator as Virile Hero -- 5. Allegory -- Allegories and Allegorical Readings -- Postcolonial Abjection: The Allegory of Woman as Subaltern -- Corrupting Allegories: Disgust -- Proliferation -- Allegorical Dualities Redux -- Generic Allegories -- 6. Thriller -- The Politics of Genre Fiction -- Character as Structure for the Modern Indian Nation |
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The Looking-Glass War -- Some Future Emergency -- ConclusionOn Genre -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Genres of Emergency offers literary genre as a way to understand and negotiate the varied states of emergency and crisis that have become a fixture of our contemporary world, building on a critical study of the literature written during and about the State of Emergency declared by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (1975 - 1977) |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Anglo-Indian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Anglo-Indian literature
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Literature
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Politics and government -- 1975-1977 -- In literature
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India -- History -- 1947- -- In literature
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India
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0192691104 |
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9780191957024 |
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019195702X |
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9780192691101 |
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