Indian genre fiction : pasts and future histories /
"This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially science fiction/fantasy have slowly made the...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019
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| Series: | Studies in global genre fiction.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Indian genre fiction - languages, literatures, classifications / Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Aakriti Mandhwani and Anwesha Maity
- Part 1: Emergence of distinctions
- Literary and popular fiction in late colonial Tamil Nadu / Preetha Mani
- Homage to a 'magic-writer': the Mistrīz and Asrār novels of Urdu / C.M. Naim
- A series of unfortunate events: natural calamities in 19th-century Bengali chapbooks / Aritra Chakraborti
- Explorers of subversive knowledge: the science fantasy of Leela Majumdar and Sukumar Ray / Debjani Sengupta
- Part 2: Postcolonial reassertions
- Hearts and homes: a perspective on women / Ira Pande
- Genre fiction and aesthetic relish: reading rasa ini contemporary times / Anwesha Maity
- Community fiction: Mamang Dai's "the legends of Pensam" and Temsula Ao's "These hills called home: stories from a war zone" / Jeetumoni Basumatary
- Part 3: Genres in the 21st century
- Post-millennial 'mythology-inspired fiction' in English: the market, the genre and the (global) reader / E. Dawson Varughese
- Expanding world of Indian English fiction: The Mahabharata retold in Krishna Udayasankar's The Aryavarta Chronicles and Amruta Patil's Adi Parva / Chinmay Sharma
- When Bhimayana enters the classroom... / Aratrika Das
- From the colloquial to the 'literary': Hindi pulps journey from the streets to the bookshelves / Aakriti Mandhwani.
