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Anjaria, Ulka

 
9781439916636: Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture
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ISBN 10: 1439916632 ISBN 13: 9781439916636
Editorial: Temple University Press,U.S., 2019

Sinopsis

In an age of social media and reality television, reading and consumption habits in India now demand homegrown pulp fictions. Ulka Anjaria categorizes post-2000 Indian literature and popular culture as constituting “the contemporary,” a movement defined by new and experimental forms-where high- and low-brow meet, and genres break down. 

Reading India Now studies the implications of this developing trend as both the right-wing resurges and marginalized voices find expression. Anjaria explores the fiction of Chetan Bhagat and Anuja Chauhan as well as Aamir Khan’s television talk show, Satyamev Jayate, plus the work of documentarian Paromita Vohra, to argue how different kinds of texts are involved in imagining new political futures for an India in transition. Contemporary literature and popular culture in India might seem artless and capitalistic, but it is precisely its openness to the world outside that allows these new works to offer significant insight into the experiences and sensibilities of contemporary India.

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Ulka Anjaria is an Associate Professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form, and editor of A History of the Indian Novel in English.

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Editorial
Temple University Press,U.S.
Año de publicación
2019
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ISBN 10 
1439916632
ISBN 13 
9781439916636
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Número de páginas
322
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