Reading India in a Transnational Era: The Works of Raja Rao by Rumina Sethi

Description: Introduction Part I: Re-routing Raja Raös Politics, National Identity and Postcolonial Criticism 1. The Lure of Monarchy in the Pursuit of Truth: Raja Raös Royalism in The Serpent and the Rope 2. From National to Metaphysical: Raja Raös Idea of India in a Transnational Era 3. Resisting the British Empire: Raja Raös Two Political Anthologies Changing India and Whither India? 4. Threads of Identity: Caste, Clothing and Community in Raja Raös Kanthapura 5. The Cat and Shakespeare, the Problem of the Ego-Self, and the Vagaries of Literary Reputation Part II: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and the Novel 6. Comrade Kirillov: `A New Novel¿ Newly Understood 7. Women and the Narrative of Nationalism in Raja Raös The Cow of the Barricades 8. Posthumanism in Raja Raös The Cat and Shakespeare: Redrawing the Boundaries 9. The Cat and the Chessmaster: Deconstructing `Play¿ in Two Novels by Raja Rao 10. The Unknown Quantity: Mathematics and Metaphysics in Raja Raös The Chessmaster and His Moves Part III: Multicultural Politics, Habitat and Translation 11. `I Am Not Gandhi¿: Kanthapura and the Problem of Allegory 12. Nature and Landscape: An Evolutionary Psychological Analysis of Raja Raös Writing 13. Search in Confusion: Reading Transnational Friendships in Raja Raös Kanthapura and Ahmed Ali¿s Twilight in Delhi 14. On Translating Raja Rao in the Transnational Era Part IV: Reminiscences Raja Rao at his Bed Table. Raja Rao: The Untold Story. Poem (for Raja Rao): Krishna. Afterword.

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