Amit Chaudhuri, Afternoon Raag

Emma Bird (University of Warwick)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.1.03: Indian Writing and Culture: Post-colonial, 1947-present.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1993

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

In the introduction to his edited volume The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature (2001), Amit Chaudhuri discussed his decision to include such a wide variety of literary forms and genres: “while the large novel might have come to seem typical of the Indian literary enterprise, it is actually not. It contrasts with forms that writers of fiction have chosen in, say, Bengali, where the short story and novella have predominated at least as much as the novel” (xxiv). As editor, Chaudhuri drew attention to an alternative literary tradition than the one usually anthologised under the terms of ‘the Indian literary enterprise’. The formal experimentalism of Chaudhuri’s own fiction further embodies the stylistic diversity of …

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

970 words

Citation: Bird, Emma . "Afternoon Raag". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 May 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=26543, accessed 24 November 2024.]

Save this article