Genre Fiction of New India: Post-millennial receptions of "weird" narratives

by E. Dawson Varughese and Emma Dawson Varughese

Book Overview

This book investigates fiction in English, written within, and published from India since 2000 in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction in doing so it introduces the term 'Bharati Fantasy'. This volume is anchored in notions of the 'weird' and thus some time is spent understanding this term linguistically, historically ('wyrd') as well as　philosophically and most significantly socio-culturally because 'reception' is a key theme to this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367868563
• ISBN13: 9780367868567
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"