South-Asian Fiction in English Contemporary Transformations
This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan,
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Alex Tickell
South-Asian Fiction in English
Alex Tickell
South-Asian Fiction in English Contemporary Transformations
Alex Tickell The Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-40353-7 ISBN 978-1-137-40354-4 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-40354-4
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This volume developed out of a seminar series and symposium organized by the Open University’s Postcolonial Literatures Research Group. The symposium, on Contemporary South-Asian Fiction, was hosted by the Institute of English Studies at Senate House, University of London on 3 November 2012. I am grateful to Jon Millington at the IES for his help in organizing both the seminar series and the concluding symposium. I would also like to express my thanks to the Modern Humanities Research Association for a Conference Grant, which covered organizational costs for the symposium. Special thanks are due to my colleagues in the English Department at the Open University, David Johnson, Susheila Nasta and Suman Gupta, and to Pooja Sinha, E. Dawson Varughese and Ole Birk Laursen, all of whom supported the event. At Palgrave Macmillan I would like to thank Ben Doyle and Tomas René for their encouragement and assistance, and to the anonymous reader who provided perceptive feedback on the initial proposal. I am most grateful, as always, to Rachel Goodyear for her advice and editorial work on this project. *
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Suman Gupta’s chapter Contemporary Indian Commercial Fiction in English is reprinted
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