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Author Joshi, Priya.

Title In another country : colonialism, culture, and the English novel in India / Priya Joshi
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 363 pages) : illustrations
Contents The poetical economy of consumption -- The circulation of fiction in Indian libraries, ca. 1835-1901 -- Readers write back : the Macmillan colonial library in India -- By way of transition : Bankim's will, or indigenizing the novel in India -- Reforming the novel : Krupa Satthianadhan, the woman who did -- The exile at home : Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi -- The other modernism, or the family romance in English
Summary Asking what Indian readers chose to read and why, In Another Country shows how readers of the English novel transformed the literary and cultural influences of empire. She further demonstrates how Indian novelists writing in English, 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
Notes Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D)--Columbia University, 1995
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-345) and index
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Subject Indic fiction (English) -- History and criticism
Anglo-Indian fiction -- History and criticism
Books and reading -- India -- History
Fiction -- Appreciation -- India
Language and culture -- India
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism -- India
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Anglo-Indian fiction
Books and reading
Fiction -- Appreciation
Imperialism in literature
Indic fiction (English)
Language and culture
Literature
Postcolonialism
Roman
Romans.
Engels.
Imperialisme.
Postkolonialisme.
Boekenproductie.
India -- In literature
India
Indien
Englisch.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001047921
ISBN 0231500904
9780231500906
9780231125840
0231125844
9780231125857
0231125852