Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel On Catastrophic Realism

‘Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel is an incisive study of how literature represents three “catastrophic” events of twenty-century India. Advancing original readings of both famous and less-known works in English and Bengali, and blending histor

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Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel On Catastrophic Realism

Sourit Bhattacharya

New Comparisons in World Literature

Series Editors Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee Department of English Comparative Literary Studies University of Warwick Coventry, UK Neil Lazarus University of Warwick Coventry, UK

New Comparisons in World Literature offers a fresh perspective on one of the most exciting current debates in humanities by approaching ‘world literature’ not in terms of particular kinds of reading but as a particular kind of writing. We take ‘world literature’ to be that body of writing that registers in various ways, at the levels of form and content, the historical experience of capitalist modernity. We aim to publish works that take up the challenge of understanding how literature registers both the global extension of ‘modern’ social forms and relations and the peculiar new modes of existence and experience that are engendered as a result. Our particular interest lies in studies that analyse the registration of this decisive historical process in literary consciousness and affect. Editorial Board Dr. Nicholas Brown, University of Illinois, USA Dr. Bo G. Ekelund, University of Stockholm, Sweden Dr. Dorota Kolodziejczyk, Wroclaw University, Poland Professor Paulo de Medeiros, University of Warwick, UK Dr. Robert Spencer, University of Manchester, UK Professor Imre Szeman, University of Alberta, Canada Professor Peter Hitchcock, Baruch College, USA Dr. Ericka Beckman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Dr. Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University, Canada Professor Supriya Chaudhury, Jadavpur University, India Professor Stephen Shapiro, University of Warwick, UK

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Sourit Bhattacharya

Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel On Catastrophic Realism

Sourit Bhattacharya School of Critical Studies University of Glasgow Glasgow, UK School of Critical Studies University Gardens Glasgow, UK

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