Reading India in a Transnational Era: The Works of Raja Rao

Reading India in a Transnational Era: The Works of Raja Rao
ISBN-10
1000422925
ISBN-13
9781000422924
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2021-08-13
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Authors
Rumina Sethi, Letizia Alterno

Description

This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao’s writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial and diasporic writing in the 20th Century. In addition to highlighting Rao’s significant presence in Indian writing, the volume presents a range of previously unpublished material which contextualises Rao’s work within 20th-century modernist, postmodernist and postcolonial trends. Exploring both his fictional and non-fictional works, Reading India in a Transnational Era engages with issues of subaltern agency and national belonging, authenticity, subjectivity, internationalism, multicultural politics, postcolonialism and literary and cultural representation through language and translation. A literary volume that discusses gender and identity on both socio-political grounds, apart from dealing with Rao’s linguistic experimentations in a transnational era, this book will be of interest among scholars and researchers of English, postcolonial and world literature, cultural theory and Asian studies.

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