This book investigates representations of the nation of India as characterized by unity and diversity in the works of six contemporary novelists, linking their work to important political, historical and theoretical writings.

Autorentext
ANNA GUTTMAN is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Lakehead University, USA.

Inhalt
Compromise and Contradiction in Jawaharlal Nehru's Multicultural Indian Nation Vikram Seth's Real(ist) India Parodying Nehru in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh All in the Family: Nayantara Sahgal's Indian Home Re-Examining Indian Non-Alignment: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things States of Dystopia: Imagining Future Indias in Ruchir Joshi's The Last Jet-Engine Laugh Unity in Diversity Beyond the Nation-State in Rupa Bajwa's The Sari Shop