ABSTRACT
This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao’s writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic writing in the 20th century. In addition to highlighting Rao’s significant presence in Indian writing, the volume presents a range of previously unpublished material which contextualises Rao’s work within 20th-century modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial trends. Exploring both his fictional and non-fictional works, Reading India in a Transnational Era engages with issues of subaltern agency and national belonging, authenticity, subjectivity, internationalism, multicultural politics, postcolonialism, and literary and cultural representation through language and translation.
A literary volume that discusses gender and identity on both socio-political grounds, apart from dealing with Rao’s linguistic experimentations in a transnational era, will be of interest among scholars and researchers of English, postcolonial and world literature, cultural theory, and Asian studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
Re-routing Raja Rao's politics, national identity, and postcolonial criticism
chapter 1|14 pages
The lure of monarchy in the pursuit of truth
chapter 3|9 pages
Resisting the British empire
part II|68 pages
Philosophy, aesthetics, gender, and the novel
chapter 10|11 pages
The unknown quantity
part III|49 pages
Multicultural politics, habitat, and translation
chapter 12|10 pages
Nature and landscape
chapter 13|15 pages
Search in confusion
part IV|25 pages
Reminiscences