Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements vii
3. Contents ix
4. 1. Introduction: Rewriting the Past – Memory, History and the Indo-English Novel of the 1980s and 1990s 1
5. Part One
6. 2. Memory and Transculturality 15
7. 3. Literature and Transcultural Memory 39
8. Part Two
9. 4. Novels of Political Memories: Partition and Reconciliation 59
10. 5. Novels of Private Memories: Through the Looking Glass 108
11. Part Three
12. 6. Rerouting and Remapping: The Indo-English Novel of Transcultural Memory after 2000 167
13. 7. Conclusion: ‘Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories’ 182
14. Bibliography 185
15. Index 203