R.K. Narayan
Malgudi (India : Imaginary place) National characteristics, East Indian, in literature Narayan, R. K., India LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh sähkökirjat
Manchester University Press
2007
EISBN 9781847791962
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; 1 Contexts and intertexts; 2 Early novels; 3 Middle-period novels: Mr Sampath to Waiting for the Mahatma; 4 Middle-period novels: The Guide to The Painter of Signs; 5 Late novels; 6 Critical overview and conclusion; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
R.K. Narayan?s reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of?authentic? Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its non-Indian intertexts. The study also considers the effect that Narayan?s writing for overseas publication had on novels such as Swami and Friends, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi. Narayan?s imaginary.
R.K. Narayan?s reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of?authentic? Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its non-Indian intertexts. The study also considers the effect that Narayan?s writing for overseas publication had on novels such as Swami and Friends, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi. Narayan?s imaginary.
