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  title info:
    title: Overdetermined
    sub title: how Indian English literature becomes ethnic, postcolonial, and Anglophone
  name:
    name part: Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Literary criticism.
  genre: Critiques littéraires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 317 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "In Overdetermined, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan offers a critical and institutionally situated analysis of contemporary Indian English literatures. She considers how writers, critics, and readers negotiate and resist the categories that define the field -- Indian English, Ethnic, Postcolonial, Anglophone. In doing so Srinivasan lays bare a phenomenon in English literary studies that is both widely observed and taken for granted, as well as undertheorized and understudied: the pervasive correspondence of writer and identity, scholar-subject and studied-object in minority literary fields in the United States. Each of the four chapters focuses on the work of a single author, how they have understood their identity and how they've been read: Bharati Mukherjee's disavowal of being an Indian-American writer as she became regarded as an Asian American ethnic literary pioneer and mainstay in the curriculum; how Chetan Bhagat's challenge to literary Anglophonism motivates his calculated presentation of "bad English" as a conduit to the Indian vernacular sphere and the lives of "real" Indians; the ways in which Amit Chaudhuri's rejection of hegemonic postcolonialism's investments in history and the nation underlies his writing of the domestic and the autofictional; And, Jhumpa Lahiri's move into Italian to underscore the continuities between the ethnic American and post-Anglophone literary projects to question conventional identity politics. Throughout the book, Srinivasan draws on her own experiences in the classroom to examine how contemporary Indian English literature becomes American, through a process that is historically and institutionally specific and that has implications for reading, writing, teaching, and critical practice. Rather than attribute the canonicity of well-known Indian English writers to their market success, she illuminates the interpersonal, institutional, and pedagogical dynamics that return certain texts and debates to syllabi, anthologies, and classr…
  table of contents: Introduction : identity and other open secrets -- What was multiethnic literature? : or, Bharati Mukherjee doesn't have an Indian accent -- You wouldn't say that to Gayatri Spivak -- When the Anglophone reads "like Hindi" : or, on not teaching Chetan Bhagat -- Ambivalence of Homi Bhabha's discourse -- Fictions of divergence : or, Amit Chaudhuri doesn't write the postcolonial -- Idea of Edward Said -- A desire called the post-Anglophone : or, on not being Jhumpa Lahiri.
  note: Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mukherjee, Bharati
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bhagat, Chetan
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Chaudhuri, Amit
      name part: 1962-
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lahiri, Jhumpa
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lahiri, Jhumpa
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mukherjee, Bharati
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Group identity in literature
  subject:
    topic: East Indians in literature
  subject:
    topic: East Indian Americans in literature
  subject:
    topic: Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Identité collective dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: East Indians in literature
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Indic literature (English)
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PR9499.3.M77 Z94 2025
  classification: 820.9/954
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Overdetermined
    name:
      name part: Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2025
    identifier: (DLC) 2024050779
  identifier: 9780231218856
  identifier: 0231218850
  identifier: 9780231218863
  identifier: 0231218869
  identifier: 9780231562461
  identifier: 2024050778
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250107
    record change date: 20250804223532.7
    record identifier: in00005656118
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng