Indian Literature and the World

1. Introduction: Indian Literature and the World; Rossella Ciocca and Neelam Srivastava.- SECTION ONE: 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.- SECTION TWO: 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.- SECTION THREE: GLOBALIZED INDIAN PUBLIC SPHERES.- 8. Resisting Slow Violence: Writing, Activism and Environmentalism; Alessandra Marino.- 9. The Novel and the Northeast: Indigenous Narratives in Indian Literatures; Mara Matta.- 10. From Nation to World: Bombay 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.- Index.-

Rossella Ciocca is Professor of English and Anglophone Literatures at the University of Naples "l'Orientale", Italy. She has worked on early modern literature and culture, Shakespeare, colonial and post-colonial history and literature. Her recent works include essays on the Partition of India, Mumbai novels and Tribal literature. She has co-edited Indiascapes: Images and Words from Globalised India (2008) and Parole e culture in movimento La città e le tecnologie mobili della comunicazione (2014). She is currently co-editing a new project with Sanjukta Das Gupta, titled Out of Hidden India: Adivasi Histories, Stories, Visualities and Performances.Neelam Srivastava is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the co-editor of The Postcolonial Gramsci (2012), and the author of Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel (2008). She has published widely on contemporary Indian literature, Frantz Fanon, and anti-colonial cinema. She is completing a book on the cultural history of Italian imperialism and transnational anti-colonial networks. Between 2008 and 2011, she coordinated an international collaboration funded by the Leverhulme Trust, entitled "Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia".