Overdetermined : how Indian English literature becomes ethnic, postcolonial, and Anglophone /

"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, An...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2025]
Subjects:	Mukherjee, Bharati > Criticism and interpretation. Bhagat, Chetan > Criticism and interpretation. Chaudhuri, Amit, > 1962- > Criticism and interpretation. Lahiri, Jhumpa > Criticism and interpretation. Lahiri, Jhumpa Mukherjee, Bharati Identity (Psychology) in literature. Group identity in literature. East Indians in literature. East Indian Americans in literature. Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature. Identité collective dans la littérature. Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) dans la littérature. East Indians in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Indic literature (English) > History and criticism. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.

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.