Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-631) and indexes.
Contents:
General index. List of contributors -- General editor's preface -- Editorial note -- Introduction / Shafquat Towheed. Part 1 South Asia : The novel of India / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- The novel of Pakistan / Claire Chambers -- The novel of Sri Lanka / Ruvani Ranasinha -- The novel of Bangladesh / Kaiser Haq -- Publishing and the history of the book in South Asia / Abhijit Gupta. Themes and genres : End of empire histories in the post-1945 novel / Antoinette Burton -- History and the South Asian novel / Tabish Khair -- Fiction and the borderland: partitions and frontiers / Suchi Kapila -- Gender, sexuality, and the family in South Asian fiction / Kavita Daiya -- Globalization and the South Asian novel / Kanishka Chowdhury -- Land, water, waste: environment and ecology in South Asian fiction / Sharae Deckard -- Caste logics: categorization, combination, and the contemporary novel / Toral Jatin Gajarawala -- Genre fiction in India / Priya Joshi -- The graphic novel in South Asia / Charlotta Salmi. Key authors : R.K. Narayan / G.J.V. Prasad -- Anita Desai / Shirley Chew -- Salman Rushdie / Florian Stadtler -- Amitav Ghosh / Chitra Sankaran. Part 2 South East Asia : The novel of Mainland China / Jeffrey Mather -- The novel of Hong Kong / Elaine Yee Lin Ho -- The novel of the Philippines / Patricia May B. Jurilla -- The novel of Malaysia / Andrew Hock Soon Ng -- The novel of Singapore / Philip Holden -- The novel of Myanmar / Pavan Kumar Malreddy -- Language policy, publishing, and book history in South East Asia / Lily Rose Tope. Themes and genres : Writing imperial decline in South East Asia / Andrew Biswell -- History, memory, and cultural identity in the novel of South East Asia / Sharmani Patricia Gabriel and Alex Tickell -- Language in the Malaysian and Singaporean novel in English / Ismail Talib -- Life-writing, testimony, and biographical fiction / Alex Tickell -- Cold war novels: Korea Vietnam / Derek C. Maus -- Genre fiction in South East Asia: chick lit and crime fiction / Kelly Yin Nga Tse -- The graphic novel in South East Asia / Cheng Tju Lim. Key authors : Eileen Chang / Xiaojue Wang -- Timothy Mo / Angelia Poon Mui Cheng -- F. Sionil JoseĢ / Maria Luisa Torres Reyes -- K.S. Maniam and Tash Aw / Eddie Tay. Part 3 Cross-border fictions : The novel of the Middle East / Anastasia Valassopoulos -- The Indian Ocean novel / Prem Poddar -- Narrating the global South Asian diaspora / Sudesh Mishra -- Narrating the global South East Asian diaspora / Weihsin Gui -- Publishing the South and South East Asian novel in the global market / Shafquat Towheed. Works cited -- Index of authors -- General index.
Summary:
Employs a unique three-part structure covering South Asia, South East Asia, and "cross-border" fictions and is the first work of its kind to provide a single comparative assessment of the novel across South and South East Asia, and in migrant lines of travel in and beyond these regions. Both an introduction and a scholarly resource, it covers internationally recognized novelists but also showcases forgotten under-represented writers and their works. The volume provides comprehensive survey chapters on individual national traditions, comprising the anglophone novel of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Mainland China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Myanmar. Its historical and geographical reach takes in late colonial fictions, war novels of Korea and Vietnam, and autobiographical fictions of the Chinese Cultural Revolution; its formal scope spans multi-volume historical epics, political fictions, and graphic novels. The development of the South and South East Asian novel in English is further contextualized in chapters on publishing and book history, and new forms of genre fiction.
Series:
The Oxford history of the novel in English ; volume 10
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