Indian Genre Fiction: Pasts and Future Histories

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Contents
List of contributors
Introduction: Indian genre fiction – languages, literatures, classifications
Part I Emergence of distinctions
	1 Literary and popular fiction in late colonial Tamil Nadu
	2 Homage to a ‘Magic-Writer’: the Mistrīz and Asrār novels of Urdu
	3 A series of unfortunate events: natural calamities in 19th-century Bengali chapbooks
	4 Explorers of subversive knowledge: the science fantasy of Leela Majumdar and Sukumar Ray
Part II Postcolonial reassertions
	5 Hearts and homes: a perspective on women writers in Hindi
	6 Genre fiction and aesthetic relish: reading rasa in contemporary times
	7 Community fiction: Mamang Dai’s The Legends of Pensam and Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone
Part III Genres in the 21st century
	8 Post-millennial ‘mythology-inspired fiction’ in English: the market, the genre, and the (global) reader
	9 Expanding world of Indian English fiction: The Mahabharata retold in Krishna Udayasankar’s The Aryavarta Chronicles and Amruta Patil’s Adi Parva
	10 When Bhimayana enters the classroom. . .
	11 From the colloquial to the ‘Literary’: Hindi pulp’s journey from the streets to the bookshelves
Index