Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature : Representations of Nation, Culture, and the New Indian Girl.
Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children's literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically examines the ways Indian chil...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Florence : Taylor & Francis Group, 2011. |
| Series: | Children's Literature and Culture Ser.
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Novels as Aspirational Literature
- Chapter 1. The Development of Contemporary, English-language Indian Children's Novels
- Chapter 2. Indian Women Writers: Imagining the New Indian Girl
- Chapter 3. Imagining Unity in Diversity through Cooperation and Friendship
- Chapter 4. Imagining and Performing the Indian Nation
- Chapter 5. Imagining "Indianness"
- Chapter 6. Imagining Identity in the Diaspora: Performing a "Masala" Self
- Chapter 7. Performing New Indian Girlhood
- Conclusion: Old and New Boundaries
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.