Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel: On Catastrophic Realism by Sourit B

Description: Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel by Sourit Bhattacharya This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine, the 1967–72 Naxalbari Movement, and the 1975–77 Indian Emergency, it shows that there is a long-term, colonially-engineered agrarian crisis enabling these catastrophic events. Novelists such as Bhabani Bhattacharya, Mahasweta Devi, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Nabarun Bhattacharya, and Nayantara Sahgal, among others, have captured the relationship between the long-term crisis and the catastrophic aspects of the events through different aesthetic modalities within realism, ranging from analytical-affective, critical realist, quest modes to apparently non-realist ones such as metafictional, urban fantastic, magical realist, and others. These realist modalities are together read here as postcolonial catastrophic realism. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Back Cover Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel is an incisive study of how literature represents three "catastrophic" events of twenty-century India. Advancing original readings of both famous and less-known works in English and Bengali, and blending historical accounts with literary analysis, Bhattacharya interrogates the politics of literary form and reclaims postcolonial realism as an energetic and politically committed mode of apprehending social reality. -- - Ulka Anjaria, Professor of English, Brandeis University, USA Bhattacharya has produced an illuminating and eloquent study of crisis and catastrophe in modern Indian fiction. The lens of catastrophic realism opens up a range of important texts to sharp critical analysis and generates fine new understandings of authors from Rushdie and Mahasweta Devi to O.V Vijayan and Nabarun Bhattacharya. An essential companion for studies of the novel in India. - Dr Priyamvada Gopal, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine, the 1967-72 Naxalbari Movement, and the 1975-77 Indian Emergency, it shows that there is a long-term, colonially-engineered agrarian crisis enabling these catastrophic events. Novelists such as Bhabani Bhattacharya, Mahasweta Devi, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Nabarun Bhattacharya, and Nayantara Sahgal, among others, have captured the relationship between the long-term crisis and the catastrophic aspects of the events through different aesthetic modalities within realism, ranging from analytical-affective, critical realist, quest modes to apparently non-realist ones such as metafictional, urban fantastic, magical realist, and others. These realist modalities are together read here as postcolonial catastrophic realism. Author Biography Sourit Bhattacharya is Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is a co-editor of Nabarun Bhattacharya (2020) and Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry. Table of Contents Ch. 1: Modernity, Catastrophe, and Realism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel.- Ch. 2: Disaster and Realism: The Novels of the 1943 Bengal Famine.- Ch. 3: Interrogating the Naxalbari Movement: Mahasweta Devis Quest Novels.- Ch. 4: The Aftermath of the Naxalbari Movement: Nabarun Bhattacharyas Urban Fantastic Tales.- Ch. 5: Writing the Indian Emergency: Magical and Critical Realism.- Ch. 6: Conclusion. Review "Through insightful textual readings coupled with ample quotations from the texts under discussion, and offering brief contexts of the events of historical crisis, the book is successful in capturing the attention of global readers unfamiliar with the catastrophes and novels discussed in the book. … This could be a promising avenue of inquiry for future scholars. The easy flow of writing and the profuse references to world literary works are sure to enlighten readers inside and outside the academy." (Avijit Pramanik, Postcolonial Text, Vol. 16 (1), 2021) Review Quote "This could be a promising avenue of inquiry for future scholars. The easy flow of writing and the profuse references to world literary works are sure to enlighten readers inside and outside the academy." (Avijit Pramanik, Postcolonial Text, Vol. 16 (1), 2021) Feature Explores for the first time the postcolonial English and non-anglophone Indian novel through the lens of crisis and catastrophe Examines novels by canonical authors such as Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry alongside more rarely-studied authors such as Nayantara Sahgal, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Mahasweta Devi, Amalendu Chakraborty, and Nabarun Bhattacharya Draws upon and brings in some of the contemporary debates on ecological and resource crisis, disasters, materialist postcolonial studies, world-literature, and literary activism Details ISBN3030373967 Author Sourit Bhattacharya Year 2020 ISBN-10 3030373967 ISBN-13 9783030373962 Format Hardcover Short Title Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel Language English Subtitle On Catastrophic Realism DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-37397-9 Pages 280 Publication Date 2020-05-28 Edition 1st Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland UK Release Date 2020-05-28 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 280 p. 1 illus. 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