![]() ![]() She is currently engaged in an on-going project to solicit and publish anthologies of new short stories written in English from countries in what Dawson (using Braj Kachru’s organisational scheme) terms the “Outer” and “Expanding” circles. ![]() February 2013.Įmma Dawson Varughese’s Reading New India is the latest instalment in an unusually cohesive body of work that began in 2007 with a ‘rough’ guide to World Englishes Literature and an effort to refashion the UK’s national literatures curriculum to reflect the reality of a changing English. Reading New India: Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in English. E. Emily Coolidge Toker finds the the splendor and the misery of Reading New India is that it whets the appetite for the fiction it introduces but necessarily fails to satiate the appetite thus awakened. ![]() The book describes how Indian fiction has moved beyond notions of ‘postcolonial’ writing to reflect an increasingly confident and diverse cultures by exploring the work of such writers as Aravind Adiga (author of the Man-Booker Prize winning White Tiger), Usha K.R. ![]()
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