The Booker and the Postcolonial Indian Award Winning Novels

ABOUT THE BOOK:- The present book makes an attempt to examine representations of postcolonial India in four Booker Prize winning novels: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children , Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. Awards and prizes are a quick and effective means of canonization. The Prize bestows instant credibility on a writer, and ensures high book sales. Such books also generate a large body of criticism. The Booker Prize novels foreground four aspects of postcolonial India that had hitherto not been represented in the Indian English novel. These aspects are the focus of the present book. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:-Dr. Yakaiah Kathy teaches at the Department of English, Kakatiya University, Warangal. He obtained M.A, M. Phil and Ph. D from Kakatiya University. Having ten years of teaching experience, Dr Yakaiah teaches British literature and Indian writing in English at the postgraduate level. His areas of research include Indian fiction in English and postcolonial literature, and he has published extensively both in national and international peer reviewed journals. CONTENTS:- Acknowledgements . 7 Preface . 9 Chapter - 1 Situating Post-Colonialism in Indian Fiction English: A Critique . 13 Chapter - 2 Indian Literature: An Introduction . 39 Chapter - 3 Canon: The Role of the Booker . 55 Chapter - 4 The Personal and the Public: History in Midnight’s Children . 65 Chapter - 5 ‘Death More Profitable than Life’: A Critique of Caste, Patriarchy, Communism in the God of Small Things . 81 Chapter - 6 ‘Distant Others’: Immigrant Experience in the Inheritance of Loss. 101 Chapter - 7 Representation of Modern India: Social Contexts in the White Tiger . 117 Chapter - 8 Conclusion: Globalisation of Indian English Novel . 133 Select Bibliography . 139 Index . 167 The Title 'The Booker and the Postcolonial Indian Award Winning Novels written/authored/edited by Dr . Yakaiah Kathy', published in the year 2017. The ISBN 9789353241070 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 173 (Pages). The publisher of this title is GenNext Publication. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Novel / Fiction. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-