Understanding Bharati Mukherjee
by Ruth Maxey
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Understanding Bharati Mukherjee is the first book to examine this pioneering author’s complete oeuvre and to identify its legacy. Maxey offers new insights into widely discussed texts and recuperates overlooked works, such as Mukherjee’s first and last published short stories, her neglected nonfiction, and her many essays. Critically situating both well-known and under-discussed texts, this study analyzes the aesthetic and ideological complexity of Mukherjee’s writing, considering her sophisticated, erudite, multilayered use of intertextuality, especially her debt to cinema. Maxey argues that understanding the range of formal and stylistic strategies in play is crucial to grasping Mukherjee’s work.
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“A timely, critical and distinctive contribution to the interpretation of this controversial and pioneering South Asian-American writer…Its wide-ranging scope and innovative approach will make this study a key point of reference for future scholars of postcolonial and contemporary American literary studies.” — Ruvani Ranasinha, King’s College London
Author Biography
Ruth Maxey is an associate professor in modern American literature at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970–2010, and her articles have appeared in many journals.
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- Publisher University of South Carolina Press
- Publication Date September 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781643360003 / 1643360003
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 39.99 USD
- Pages160
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- EditionFirst
- Copyright Year2019
- Dimensions9X6 inches
- SeriesUnderstanding Contemporary American Literature
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