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Salman Rushdie and Indian historiographywriting the nation into being /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Salman Rushdie and Indian historiographyNicole Weickgennant Thiara.
Reminder of title:	writing the nation into being /
Author:	Thiara, Nicole Weickgenannt.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	viii, 226 p. ;23 cm.
Subject:	English fictionHistory and criticism.20th century
Subject:	IndiaIn literature.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230244412

Salman Rushdie and Indian historiographywriting the nation into being /
Thiara, Nicole Weickgenannt.

Salman Rushdie and Indian historiographywriting the nation into being /[electronic resource] :Nicole Weickgennant Thiara. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - viii, 226 p. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.

Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A Biography of the Nation -- Wives, Widows, and Witches -- The New God-and-Mammon India -- Mother India -- The Idea of a Hybrid India -- Notes --Bibliography -- Index --.

This book explores the depiction of Indian history in Salman Rushdie's novels in relation to the way in which Indian history is narrativised in modern Indian historiography. The central argument is that Rushdie's conception of India is framed within the parameters of nationalist discourse andnationalist historiography, and that it was inspired in particular by the political and historical writings of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The book explores for the first time themarked parallels between Rushdie's critique of the Nehruvian legacy andthe most significant recent trends in Indian historiography, specifically the feminist and subalternist movements. Particular attention is paid to the representation of women and to gendered notions of the nation, such as the concept of Mother India. Drawing on the theoretical work of Mikhail Bakhtin, this book proposes that Rushdie advocates a democratic, 'novelistic' intersubjectivity as a basis for a new imagining of India.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230244412

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230244412doiSubjects--Personal Names:

461019
Nehru, Jawaharlal,
1889-1964--Influence.Subjects--Topical Terms:

175035
English fiction
--History and criticism.--20th centurySubjects--Geographical Terms:

392991
India
--In literature.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR6068.U757 / Z895 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 823.914

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