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Author Chawla, Gitanjali

Title Indian Popular Fiction Redefining the Canon
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (279 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Popular Habitats: Changing Ethos -- 1. The Reader has Moved on. Long Live the Consumer! -- 2. Reading Mills and Boon in India: From the Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience -- 3. Indian Commercial Fiction: Chetan Bhagat and the Politics of the Neoliberal Citizenry -- 4. The Use and Abuse of 'Abuse' in the 'Popular' -- Popular Whodunnit: India's Tryst with Sherlock -- 5. Papyrus to Celluloid: An Insight into the Oeuvre of Bengali Detectives
6. Feluda's Rendezvous with Heirlooms and Tradition -- 7. From Detective to Vigilante: An Examination of the Vimal Series by Surender Mohan Pathak -- Popular Mythology: Revisitations and Retelling -- 8. Mytho-Nukes: The Indian Popular and the Nuclear Debate -- 9. Re-configuring Sita as the Warrior of Mithila -- 10. The Palace of Illusions: Redefining the Mahabharata in Popular Fiction -- Popular Vernacular: Identities and Intersections -- 11. Sikh Periodicals and Popular Literature: Framing Community Consciousness -- 12. Thakurmar Jhuli: A Study of the Changing Bengali Society
13. Indian English Commercial Fiction and the Question of Caste -- Contributors -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Indic fiction -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Popular literature -- India -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Indic fiction
Popular literature
India
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Mittal, Sangeeta
ISBN 9781000483710
1000483711