Indian Literature and the World

1. Introduction: Indian Literature and the World
Rossella Ciocca, Neelam Srivastava

Part I. Comparing Multilingual Perspectives

2. Pre-Nation and Post-Colony: 1947 in Qurratulain Hyder’s My Temples, Too and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

3. Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English Village Novels
Francesca Orsini

4. Choosing a Tongue, Choosing a Form: Kamala Das’s Bilingual Algorithms
Udaya Kumar

Part II. Enlarging the World Literary Canon: New Voices and Translation

5. A Multiple Addressivity: Indian Subaltern Autobiographies and the Role of Translation
Neelam Srivastava

6. The Modern Tamil Novel: Changing Identities and Transformations
Lakshmi Holmström

7. The Voices of Krishna Sobti in the Polyphonic Canon of Indian Literature
Stefania Cavaliere

Part III. Globalized Indian Public Spheres

8. Resisting Slow Violence: Writing, Activism, and Environmentalism
Alessandra Marino

9. The Novel and the North-East: Indigenous Narratives in Indian Literatures
Mara Matta

10. From Nation to World: Bombay/Mumbai Fictions and the Urban Public Sphere
Rossella Ciocca

11. The Individual and the Collective in Contemporary India: Manju Kapur’s Home and Custody

Maryam Mirza

12. ‘Home is a Place You’ve Never Been to’: A Woman’s Place in the Indian Diasporic Novel
Clelia Clini

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Comparative Literature