Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: The Reception of Indian Writing in English (IWE) in the Global Literary Market....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Writing India Right: Indian Writing and the Global Market....Pages 13-31
Indian Writing in English as Celebrity....Pages 32-47
How Does It Feel to Be the Solution? Indians and Indian Diaspora Fiction: Their Role in the Marketplace and the University....Pages 48-62
Commodifying Culture: Language and Exoticism in IWE....Pages 63-80
Indian Writing in the West: Imperialism, Exoticism and Visibility....Pages 81-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Of Saris and Spices: Marketing Paratexts of Indian Women’s Fiction....Pages 99-118
Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the Troubled Symbolic Production of a Man Booker Prize Winner....Pages 119-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Global Goondas? Money, Crime and Social Anxieties in Aravind Adiga’s Writings....Pages 143-163
In the Right Place at the Right Time: A Tale of Two Brothers, Rohinton and Cyrus Mistry....Pages 164-179
‘(Not) readily available’: Kiran Nagarkar in the Global Market....Pages 180-197
Back Matter....Pages 198-216