ENTWINING NARRATIVES: CRITICAL EXPLORATIONS INTO VIKRAM CHANDRA'S FICTION

Eds.: Sheobhushan Shukla, Christopher Rollason and Anu Shukla
New Delhi: Sarup, 2010
ISBN 978-81-7625-995-8 - hardback, vi + 264 pp.

Vikram Chandra, born in Delhi in 1961, has risen to prominence as one of the most acclaimed of the current generation of practitioners of Indian Writing in English. He is the author of the novels Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995) and Sacred Games (2006) and the story collection Love and Longing in Bombay (1997). This volume reflects the international range of scholarship on Chandra, through ten critical essays and an interview. Taken together, the contributions point up plurality as a vital feature of a body of fiction that reflects both the innate heterogeneity of Indian culture and the complexities of postcoloniality and globalisation, while refusing all monolithic belief-systems and constantly interweaving a multiplicity of narrative voices.

  1. Editors' Introduction 1-11
  2. Silvia Albertazzi, "To tell a story is to affirm life": Death and Storytelling in Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain 12-31
  3. Andrew Teverson, Leaving the Past Behind, Letting the Future Alone: Vikram Chandra’s Uses of History in Red Earth and Pouring Rain 32-53
  4. Christopher Rollason, The Tale-teller and the Text: Storytelling in Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain and Love and Longing in Bombay 54-78
  5. Christopher Rollason, On the Spanish Translation of Vikram Chandra's Love and Longing in Bombay: Problems and Strategies of Translating a Transcultural Text  79-104
  6. Cielo Festino, A Story from Vikram Chandra's Love and Longing in Bombay: "Kama" - Detecting in Bombay 105-113
  7. Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Supermodernity’s Meganarratives: A Comparative Study of Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games, Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram and Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City 114-130
  8. Dora Sales Salvador, "Only Life Itself": Noir Fiction and Beyond in Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games 131-147
  9. Adalinda Gasparini, Farewell, Father Œdipus: Freedom and Uncertainty in Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games 148-181
  10. Sheobhushan Shukla, The Other as the Subject in Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games 182-197
  11. Anu Shukla, Uses and Abuses of Indian English in Sacred Games 198-211
  12. Antonia Navarro-Tejero, A Conversation with Vikram Chandra 212-239

Contributors 240-245
Bibliography 246-257

Index 258-264

 

 

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