Reading India now : contemporary formations in literature and popular culture /
Ulka Anjaria.
- xiv, 264 pages ; 24 cm
Rs.875/- TB2747/09
Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-260) and index.
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.
"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"--
9789352876457(pbk).
Indic literature--History and criticism.--21st century Popular culture--History--India--21st century.