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      Reading India in a Transnational Era

      by Rumina Sethi, Letizia Alterno

      This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao's writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial and diasporic writing in the 20th Century.

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      This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao's writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic writing in the 20th century. In addition to highlighting Rao's significant presence in Indian writing, the volume presents a range of previously unpublished material which contextualises Rao's work within 20th-century modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial trends. Exploring both his fictional and non-fictional works, Reading India in a Transnational Era engages with issues of subaltern agency and national belonging, authenticity, subjectivity, internationalism, multicultural politics, postcolonialism, and literary and cultural representation through language and translation.A literary volume that discusses gender and identity on both socio-political grounds, apart from dealing with Rao's linguistic experimentations in a transnational era, will be of interest among scholars and researchers of English, postcolonial and world literature, cultural theory, and Asian studies.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction Part I: Re-routing Raja Rao's Politics, National Identity and Postcolonial Criticism 1. The Lure of Monarchy in the Pursuit of Truth: Raja Rao's Royalism in The Serpent and the Rope 2. From National to Metaphysical: Raja Rao's Idea of India in a Transnational Era 3. Resisting the British Empire: Raja Rao's Two Political Anthologies Changing India and Whither India? 4. Threads of Identity: Caste, Clothing and Community in Raja Rao's 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 Rao's The Cow of the Barricades 8. Posthumanism in Raja Rao's 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 Rao's 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 Rao's Writing 13. Search in Confusion: Reading Transnational Friendships in Raja Rao's 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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      ISBN103205056X
      Author Letizia Alterno
      Pages 242
      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Year 2023
      ISBN-13 9781032050560
      Format Paperback
      Publication Date 2023-09-25
      Subtitle The Works of Raja Rao
      Place of Publication London
      Country of Publication United Kingdom
      Alternative 9781032250274
      Edited by Letizia Alterno
      DEWEY 823.914
      Audience Tertiary & Higher Education
      UK Release Date 2023-09-25
      ISBN-10 103205056X
      Imprint Routledge India

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