In another country : colonialism, culture, and the English novel in India /

Asking what Indian readers chose to read and why, In Another Country shows how readers of the English novel transformed the literary and cultural influences of empire. She further demonstrates how Indian novelists writing in English, from Krupa Satthianadhan to Salman Rushdie, took an alien form in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joshi, Priya
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press ©2002.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/josh12584
Table of Contents:
  • The poetical economy of consumption
  • The circulation of fiction in Indian libraries, ca. 1835-1901
  • Readers write back : the Macmillan colonial library in India
  • By way of transition : Bankim's will, or indigenizing the novel in India
  • Reforming the novel : Krupa Satthianadhan, the woman who did
  • The exile at home : Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi
  • The other modernism, or the family romance in English.