Inside and Outside the Literary Marketplace: The Digital Products of Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-205
Author(s):  
Tawnya Azar
Keyword(s):  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Literary Marketplace ◽  
Digital Products ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Arundhati Roy

scholarly journals Woman, Genealogy, History: Deconstructions of Family and Nation in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines and Manju Kapur’s Diffi cult Daughters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Elena Martos Hueso
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Diffi Cult ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Midnight's Children ◽  
History Of ◽  
Posterior Division

Abstract:Since the publication of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, the recent history of Indian Literature in English has been characterised by a growing interest in rewriting the history of India from an angle diametrically opposed to that of official historiography. Taking as a starting point Foucault’s concept of Nietzschean genealogy, which emphasises the value of microhistory and interrogates the function of narrative linearity in historiographic practices, this paper analyses two analogous Indian English novels based on the independence and subsequent partition of the Indian subcontinent: The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh and Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur. It mainly focuses on the deconstruction of the nationalist myth, where women and motherhood lay at the centre of the gestation and birth of the new nation.Keywords: Amitav Ghosh, Manju Kapur, The Shadow Lines, Diffi cult Daughters, history, genealogy, women, Indian Literature in English.Resumen:Desde la publicación de Midnight’s Children de Salman Rushdie, la historia reciente de la novela india en lengua inglesa se ha visto marcada por un interés creciente en reescribir la historia de la India desde un ángulo diametralmente opuesto al de la historiografía oficial. Partiendo del concepto de la genealogía nietzscheana de Foucault, que enfatiza el valor de la microhistoria y cuestiona la linealidad narrativa de la práctica historiográfica, este estudio analiza dos obras de inquietante paralelismo basadas en la independencia y posterior división del subcontinente indio: The Shadow Lines de Amitav Ghosh y Difficult Daughters de Manju Kapur. Se centra principalmente en la deconstrucción de los mitos nacionalistas, donde la mujer y la maternidad se convierten en foco de toda una alegoría en torno a la gestación y nacimiento de la nueva nación.Palabras clave: Amitav Ghosh, Manju Kapur, The Shadow Lines, Difficult Daughters, historia, genealogía, mujeres, literatura india en lengua inglesa.

The Indian Novel in the 21st Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amardeep Singh
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Midnight's Children ◽  
And Gender

The Indian novel has been a vibrant and energetic expressive space in the 21st century. While the grand postcolonial gestures characteristic of the late-20th-century Indian novel have been in evidence in new novels by established authors such as Vikram Chandra, Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie, a slate of new authors has emerged in this period as well, charting a range of new novelistic modes. Some of these authors are Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, Githa Hariharan, Samina Ali, Karan Mahajan, and Amitava Kumar. In general, there has been a move away from ambitious literary fiction in the form of the “huge, baggy monster” that led to the publication of several monumental postcolonial novels in the 1980s and 1990s; increasingly the most dynamic and influential Indian writing uses new novelistic forms and literary styles tied to the changing landscape of India’s current contemporary social and political problems. The newer generation of authors has also eschewed the aspiration to represent the entirety of life in modern India, and instead aimed to explore much more limited regional and cultural narrative frameworks. If a novel like Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981) took its protagonist all over the Indian subcontinent and indexed a large number of important historical controversies in the interest of broad representation, Padma Viswnanathan’s The Toss of a Lemon (2008) limits itself to a focus on a single Tamil Brahmin family’s orientation to issues of caste and gender, and remains effectively local to Tamil Nadu. There is no central agenda or defining idiom of this emerging literary culture, but three major groupings can be identified that encapsulate the major themes and preoccupations of 21st-century Indian fiction: “New Urban Realism,” “Gender and Secular History,” and “Globalizing India, Reinscribing the Past.”

scholarly journals A Study of Cultural conflict and trauma of the protagonist in Amitav Ghose’s The Glass Palace

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 140-152
Author(s):  
Dr.K. Jaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Cultural Conflict ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Humanistic Approach ◽  
Entire World

Amitav Ghosh is one of the most popular novelists of the period, with an amazing intelligence of place, history and politics. Ghosh has joined the ranks of notable novelists such as Monohar Malgonkar, Shashi Tharoor, Khushwant Singh, Salman Rushdie, Chaman Nahal, and others. In Ghosh’s novels, one may detect a feeling of historical realism. Ghosh’s writings are characterised by a strong desire for strong identifications and race relations. Amitav Ghosh recognises that society must be reformed from problems such as caste system, gender discrimination, ill-treatment of women, child marriages, poverty, exploitation, and demonic tradition, among others. Ghosh’s humanistic approach provides voice to the forgotten and lowly women characters in his works. He wants to free the entire world from the squabbles of caste, race, gender, religion, untouchability, and geographical dislocation that obstruct human development. It is also demonstrated how the sacrifices of marginalised and female characters have gone unnoticed in the pages of history. This paper examines the Cultural conflict and trauma of the protagonist in AmitavGhose’s The Glass Palace.

scholarly journals INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF WOMAN AND NATURE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WOMAN CHARACTER NANDA KAUL IN ANITA DESAI’S FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN

2018 ◽  
pp. 152-161
Author(s):  
Anjali Parmar ◽  
Ami Upadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
Anita Desai ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
Woman Character ◽  
Changing Trends ◽  
Kamala Markandaya ◽  
Indian Writing In English ◽  
Indian Scenario

The paper focuses on the changing trends in Indian writing in English with special reference to Anita Desai. During the seventy years of its effective history Indian writing in English crossed many milestones and has come to be finally accepted as a major literature of the world. A new group of writers have arrived on the Indian scenario, for example - Anita Desai, Chaman Nahal, Kamala Markandaya, Arun Joshi,Dina Mehta, Salman Rushdie, Shobha De, Vandana Shiva, and the Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy and many more in list. Here I would like to focus on the new trend in Indian literature and that is ecofeminism as well as her portyal of woman characters in that context. A close reading of Anita Desai and her novels makes us aware of her novel is related to her own experiences and the reality. Attention on this work is focused on the life of Anita Desai, her interest in ecofeminism and how she is influenced by social, economic, political and cultural problems of her age.

Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Forter
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Patrick Chamoiseau ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
Literary Forms

Postcolonial historical fiction offers readers valuable resources for thinking the prehistory of our present. The genre’s treatment of colonialism as geographically omnivorous yet temporally “out of joint” with itself gives it a special purchase on the continuities between the colonial era and our own. These features also enable the genre to distill from our colonial pasts the evanescent, utopian intimations of a properly postcolonial future. Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction arrives at these insights by juxtaposing novels from the Atlantic world with books from the Indian subcontinent. Attending to the links across these regions, Forter develops luminous readings of novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, J. G. Farrell, Amitav Ghosh, Marlon James, Hari Kunzru, Toni Morrison, Marlene van Niekerk, Arundhati Roy, Kamila Shamsie, and Barry Unsworth. He shows how these works not only transform our understanding of the colonial past and the futures that might issue from it, but also contribute to pressing debates in postcolonial theory—debates about the politics of literary forms, the links between cycles of capital accumulation and the emergence of new genres, the meaning of “working through” traumas in the postcolonial context, the relationship between colonial and panoptical power, the continued salience of hybridity and mimicry for the study of colonialism, and the tension between national liberation struggles and transnational forms of solidarity. Beautifully written and meticulously theorized, Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction will be of interest to students of world literature, Marxist critics, postcolonial theorists, and thinkers of the utopian.

Socio –Political Concept In Rohinton Ministry’s A Fine Balance

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-203
Author(s):  
JOSEPH MAYAKUNTLA
Keyword(s):  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Bharati Mukherjee ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Rohinton Mistry ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
The World ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Family Matter

‘Holding this  book  in your hand, sinking back in your soft arm-chair, your will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me and after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own  insensitivity, accusing him of wild exagger-tragendy is not a fiction all is true’. Honor’s de Balzac, le p’ere Goriot Rohinton Mistry is an important figure in contemporary common wealth s literature and he occupies a significant position among the writers of Indian diaspora. Mistry like Rushdie and many other Indian English writer is an “émigré” who left India in 1970’s to live in Canada. He is the best-known indo-Canadian novelist, his novels namely such a long journey, a fine balance and family matter have been best sellers and received international a wards. Mistry belongs to the burgeoning crop of Indian novelist writing in English to place him rightly among the great Indian English writers in the words of the santwana haldar.“A glowing star in the galaxy that contains luminaries such as vs. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, Vikram Seth and Bharati Mukherjee to mention a few Rohinton Mistry has drawn the attention of the world as an absorbing writer of human experience.” (Santwana, 2006:7)

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