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Colonial Karma: The Problem of Action in the Indian English Novel
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ISBN10: 1403964009
ISBN13: 9781403964007
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 16 2004
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781403964007
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 16 2004
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Colonial Karma tracks the Indian English novel from its colonial origins to the present, each chapter focusing on a particular historical moment. Linking the novel's development with that of Indian cultural nationalism, it argues that nationalism seeks to solve the problem of action for its middle-class subject by redefining the Bhagavad-Gita's concept of karma for political purposes. Two figures serve to exemplify this problem: Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita and Saleem in Midnight's Children . After considering influential early novels in Indian languages, Colonial Karma discusses novels in English by Narayan, Anand, Rao, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Deshpande and Githa Hariharan.
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