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ISSUES OF IDENTITY IN INDIAN ENGLISH FICTION - ...

Rapid developments in the fields of trade  market  commerce and telecommunication technologies
together with cultural confrontations at the global level are creating a paradigmatic shift in
people's understanding of selfhood and identity. This book makes a serious attempt to trace and
map out the making of contemporary post-national identities within the subcontinental cultural
production of India and in its English Fiction. One of the structural ventures of this study is
that these newer identities  which are basically fragmented  ruptured  hyphenated  and
palimpsestic in nature  require new descriptions and new elaborations within the field of
creative literature and literary criticism. In order to pursue its research on these lines  the
present work contrasts the notion of subjecthood and identity with the earlier phases of Indian
cultural imagination as represented in some of the pioneering works of Indian English Fiction
that have now attained a canonical status. By analysing some of the predominant concerns that
work as leitmotif in most of the Indian English novels  the book brings together and
reinterprets some problematic concepts such as history  culture  religion  nation and
nationalism and creates a theoretical axis upon which it charts insightful and engaging aspects
of selfhood and identity.

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