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  1. The emergency and the Indian English novel
    memory, culture and politics
    Author: Merivirta, Raita
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon

    "This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses how the Emergency was an event that led to a prodigious outpouring of novels trying to preserve the forgotten horrors it wreaked on... more

     

    "This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses how the Emergency was an event that led to a prodigious outpouring of novels trying to preserve the forgotten horrors it wreaked on people and institutions of the country. The author reads works of Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Nayantara Sahgal and Rohinton Mistry in conjunction with government white papers, political speeches, memoirs, biographies and history. They further explore the betrayal of the Nehruvian idea of India and democracy by Indira Gandhi and analyse the political and cultural amnesia among the general populace, in the decades following the Emergency. At a time when debates around freedom of speech and expression have become critical to literary and political discourses, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, media studies, political studies, sociology, history and for general readers as well"--

     
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  2. The emergency and the Indian English novel
    memory, culture and politics
    Author: Merivirta, Raita
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge,, Abingdon, Oxon

    Midnight's children : preserving memories for "the Amnesiac nation" -- Safeguarding democracy in the great Indian novel -- Family ties : nepotism and corruption in rich like us -- The repressive state apparatus in such a long journey and a fine... more

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    Fachinformationsverbund Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Bibliothek
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    Midnight's children : preserving memories for "the Amnesiac nation" -- Safeguarding democracy in the great Indian novel -- Family ties : nepotism and corruption in rich like us -- The repressive state apparatus in such a long journey and a fine balance.

     
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  3. The emergency and the Indian English novel
    memory, culture and politics
    Author: Merivirta, Raita
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses how the Emergency was an event that led to a prodigious outpouring of novels trying to preserve the forgotten horrors it wreaked on... more

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    TU Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek - Stadtmitte
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    "This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses how the Emergency was an event that led to a prodigious outpouring of novels trying to preserve the forgotten horrors it wreaked on people and institutions of the country. The author reads works of Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Nayantara Sahgal and Rohinton Mistry in conjunction with government white papers, political speeches, memoirs, biographies and history. They further explore the betrayal of the Nehruvian idea of India and democracy by Indira Gandhi and analyse the political and cultural amnesia among the general populace, in the decades following the Emergency. At a time when debates around freedom of speech and expression have become critical to literary and political discourses, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, media studies, political studies, sociology, history and for general readers as well"--...

     
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  4. The emergency and the Indian English novel
    memory, culture and politics
    Author: Merivirta, Raita
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge,, Abingdon, Oxon

    Midnight's children : preserving memories for "the Amnesiac nation" -- Safeguarding democracy in the great Indian novel -- Family ties : nepotism and corruption in rich like us -- The repressive state apparatus in such a long journey and a fine... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Midnight's children : preserving memories for "the Amnesiac nation" -- Safeguarding democracy in the great Indian novel -- Family ties : nepotism and corruption in rich like us -- The repressive state apparatus in such a long journey and a fine balance.

     
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