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Fictions of India
Peter Morey
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Description for Fictions of India
paperback. Fictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers dealing with India. It examines the imperial context in which the writers operate and suggests how historical and ideological assumptions and anxieties may be read into the texts they produce. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; 3JJ; CFG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
Fictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers dealing with India. It examines the imperial context in which the writers operate and suggests how historical and ideological assumptions and anxieties may be read into the texts they produce. The study combines aspects of colonial and post-colonial debate with narrative theories to illuminate the work of these writers operating on either side of an epistemological divide formed by Indian independence in 1947. The book focuses largely on British writers on India with chapters on Kipling, E.M. Forster, John Masters, J.G. ... Read more
Fictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers dealing with India. It examines the imperial context in which the writers operate and suggests how historical and ideological assumptions and anxieties may be read into the texts they produce. The study combines aspects of colonial and post-colonial debate with narrative theories to illuminate the work of these writers operating on either side of an epistemological divide formed by Indian independence in 1947. The book focuses largely on British writers on India with chapters on Kipling, E.M. Forster, John Masters, J.G. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748611812
SKU
V9780748611812
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About Peter Morey
Peter Morey is Lecturer in Literature at the University of East London
Reviews for Fictions of India
The years most satisfying study of representations of India in the novel is Peter Morey's Fictions of India: Narrative and Power. The years most satisfying study of representations of India in the novel is Peter Morey's Fictions of India: Narrative and Power.