Reading India now : contemporary formations in literature and popular culture / Ulka Anjaria.

By:

Anjaria, Ulka, 1979- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Hyderabad Temple University Press, Orient Blackswan 2019Description: xiv, 264 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9789352876457(pbk).

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Reading India nowDDC classification:

891.4007 ANJ

Contents:

Introduction: in search of an Indian contemporary -- The new provincialism -- Writing the city now -- In pursuit of the common man -- Melodrama and the open edge of politics -- Literature beyond the pale -- Inside and out -- Epilogue: contemporaneity's futures.

Summary: "This project looks at the idea of the contemporary in 21st-century Indian literature and popular culture, working with a diverse archive that includes literary novels, commercial romances, nonfiction city writing, Hindi popular cinema, a television talk show, and the mixed media texts of a prominent feminist filmmaker"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	891.4007 ANJ (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K4074

Rs.875/-
TB2747/09

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-260) and index.

"This project looks at the idea of the contemporary in 21st-century Indian literature and popular culture, working with a diverse archive that includes literary novels, commercial romances, nonfiction city writing, Hindi popular cinema, a television talk show, and the mixed media texts of a prominent feminist filmmaker"-- Provided by publisher.

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