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• Title:Babu fictions : alienation in contemporary Indian English novels / Tabish Khair.
  
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• Author/Creator:Khair, Tabish.
  
• Published/Created:Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR9739.A44 K53 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR9492.6.A45 K53 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
  Indic fiction (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
  
• Description:xvi, 407 p. ; 22 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographic references and index.
  
• ISBN:0195652967
  
• Contents:Contexts of Babu fictions
  Maps of Babu fiction
  The rhetoric of exile
  A cosmopolitan identity: the birthmarks of hybridity
  Language: problems of dialogue and mapping
  Caste: the Hiranyagarbha syndrome
  The urban landscape: neighborhoods, a class apart
  Gender and class: a well-placed displacement
  The Indian and the universal in Raja Rao: making the world
  R.K. Narayan: a view from the window
  V.S. Naipaul: narrating from the empty centre
  Rushdie's recipe for newness
  The example of Amitav Ghosh: (re)establishing connections
  Afterword: conflictual spaces
  Appendices: Imperialism and colonization. Aliens from Marx. Caste and class.