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Reading India now : contemporary formations in literature and popular culture /

"This project looks at the idea of the contemporary in 21st-century Indian literature and popular culture, working with a diverse archive that includes literary novels, commercial romances, nonfiction city writing, Hindi popular cinema, a television talk show, and the mixed media texts of a pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ulka Anjaria
Format: Printed Book
Published: Telangana : Black swan private limited , 2019.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: in search of an Indian contemporary
  • The new provincialism
  • Writing the city now
  • In pursuit of the common man
  • Melodrama and the open edge of politics
  • Literature beyond the pale
  • Inside and out
  • Epilogue: contemporaneity's futures.