Narrating the New India: Globalization and Marginality in Post-Millennium Indian Anglophone Novels
NARRATING THE NEW INDIA: GLOBALIZATION AND MARGINALITY IN POST-MILLENNIUM INDIAN ANGLOPHONE NOVELS A dissertation submitted to the Kent State University College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Swaralipi Nandi August, 2012 Dissertation written by Swaralipi Nandi B.A., University of Burdwan, 2002 M.A., University of Hyderabad, 2004 M.Phil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2006 Ph.D., Kent State University, 2012 Approved by Babar M’Baye Co- Chair, Doctoral Dissertation Committee Masood A Raja Co- Chair, Doctoral Dissertation Committee Tammy Clewell Member, Doctoral Dissertation Committee Judy Wakabayashi Member, Doctoral Dissertation Committee Accepted by Robert W. Trogdon Chair, Department of English John R.D. Stalvey Dean, College of Arts and Sciences* ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS……………………………………………... iv INTRODUCTION: Globalization and Indian Literature…..…………...1 CHAPTER 1: Globalization and Postcolonial Studies...……………… 32 The Lacuna of Postcolonialism……………………………… 34 Literature Review and Methodology …………………………. 60 CHAPTER 2: The Homo œconomicus: Rags- to-Riches Stories and the Self-Made Man ... ………………...………………..……………………. 70 The White Tiger and the Self Made Man………………………. 72 Q&A and the New Subject of Reality TV…………………........112 CHAPTER 3: The Neoliberal City: Urban Space, Noir Fiction and Criminal Subject …………………………………….…………………… 138 The Divided City in The Story of My Assassins……….……… 142 Crime Fiction and the Panopticon in Sacred Games……….…. 179 CHAPTER 4: “The People of Apokalis”: Globalization, Environment and the Marginal ………………………………………………………… ..214 Corporations and the Environment in Animal’s People………..216 Global Conservation and Marginal Groups in The Hungry Tide………………………………………………. 254 CONCLUSION: Summarizing Marginality under Globalization…….. 288 WORKS CITED……………….……………………………….…….. 308 iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am greatly indebted to my dissertation directors, Dr.
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