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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      17 February 2022
      24 February 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009039727
      9781316510797
      9781009018449
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039727
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 244 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.401kg, 244 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in World Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in World Literature
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    Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that 'a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India,' South Asian literature has served as the imagined battleground between local linguistic multiplicity and a rapidly globalizing English. In response to this endless polemic, Indian and Pakistani writers set out in another direction altogether. They made an unexpected journey to Latin America. The cohort of authors that moved between these regions include Latin-American Nobel laureates Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz; Booker Prize notables Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Mohammed Hanif, and Mohsin Hamid. In their explorations of this new geographic connection, Roanne Kantor claims that they formed the vanguard of a new, multilingual world literary order. Their encounters with Latin America fundamentally shaped the way in which literature written in English from South Asia exploded into popularity from the 1980s until the mid-2000s, enabling its global visibility.

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