Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature: A View from India

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: Viewing Colonialism and Modernity through Indian Literature....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Critical Realisms in the Global South: Narrative Transculturation in Senapati’s Six Acres and a Third and García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude ....Pages 25-54
Views from Above and Below: George Eliot and Fakir Mohan Senapati....Pages 55-89
Two Classic Tales of Village India: The Realist Epistemology of Chha Mana Atha Guntha and Godaan ....Pages 91-112
The Emergence of the Modern Subject in Oriya and Assamese Literatures: Fakir Mohan Senapati and Hemchandra Barua....Pages 113-133
The Indigenous Modernity of Gurajada Apparao and Fakir Mohan Senapati....Pages 135-152
“Why Don’t You Speak?”: The Narrative Politics of Silence in Senapati, Premchand, and Monica Ali....Pages 153-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
The Representation of Women and Gender Relations in Six Acres and a Third....Pages 173-185
Rediscovering Ramachandra Mangaraj and Historicizing Senapati’s Critique of Colonialism....Pages 187-206
The Tradition-Modernity Dialectic in Six Acres and a Third ....Pages 207-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-261