Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Rewriting the Past -- Memory, History and the Indo-English Novel of the 1980s and 1990s -- 2. Memory and Transculturality -- 3. Literature and Transcultural Memory -- 4. Novels of Political Memories: Partition and Reconciliation -- 5. Novels of Private Memories: Through the Looking Glass -- 6. Rerouting and Remapping: The Indo-English Novel of Transcultural Memory after 2000 -- 7. Conclusion: 'Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories' -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This study develops a theory of transcultural memory in relation to the recent phenomena of globalised modernity. It aims to address the connection between memory and culture, and memory and modernity in contemporary Indo-English novels to shed new light on memory cultures in the South Asian context