Minor and Major Readings Across Cultures

Ahmad, Aijaz

2001 [1987] “Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and the ‘National Allegory’.” In his In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 95–122. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Appadurai, Arjun, Lauren Berlant, Carol A. Breckenridge, and Dilip Gaonkar

(eds) 1993 “Controversies: Debating in Theory.” Public Culture 6 (1): 3–192. http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/6/1.toc. DOI:

Attridge, Derek

2004 The Singularity of Literature. London: Routledge.

Booth, Wayne C

1983 [1961] The Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Chakladar, Arnab

2006 “Of Houses and Canons: Reading the Novels of Shashi Deshpande.” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 37: 81–97.

Chanda, Geetanjali Singh

2008 Indian Women in the House of Fiction. New Delhi: Zubaan Books.

Chaudhuri, Amit

2001 “Modernity and the Vernacular.” In The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, ed. by Amit Chaudhuri, xvii–xxxiv. London: Picador India.

Damrosch, David

2006 “World Literature in a Postcolonial Hypercanonical Age.” In Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization, ed. by Haun Saussy, 43–53. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari

2003[1975] Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. Dana Polan (trans.). Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press.

Deshpande, Shashi

1988 That Long Silence. New Delhi: Penguin India.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg

1989 Truth and Method. New York: Seabury Press.

Gandhi, Leela

1997 “Indo-Anglian Fiction: Writing India, Elite Aesthetics, and the Rise of the ‘Stephanian’ Novel.” Australian Humanistic Review 8. http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-November-1997/gandhi.html.

George, Rosemary Marangoly

1996 The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gopal, Priyamavada

2009 The Indian English Novel: Nation, History, and Narration. London: Oxford University Press.

Hariharan, Githa

1992 The Thousand Faces of Night. New Delhi: Penguin India.

Ibsen, Henrik

2009 [1879] Et dukkehjem. Oslo: Gyldendal.

Indira, S

1995 “Walking the Tight Rope: A Reading of Githa Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night .” In Indian Women Novelists, ed. by R.K. Dhawan, set III vol. 14, 177–182. New Delhi: Prestige Books.

Jameson, Fredric

1986 “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multicultural Capitalism.” Social Text 15: 65–88.

Kakar, Sudhir

2002 [1978] The Inner World: A Psycho-Analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Khair, Tabish

2001 Babu Fictions: Alienation in Indian English Novels. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Kumar, Radha

1993 The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India 1800–1990. London: Verso.

Kuortti, Joel

2002 Indian Women’s Writing in English: A Bibliography. Jaipur: Rawat Publications.

Linna, Väinö

1954 Tuntematon Sotilas. Helsinki: Otava.

Mohanram, Radhika

1996 “The Problem of Reading: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Indian Postcoloniality.” In Women of Color: Mother Daughter Relationships in 20th-Century Literature, ed. by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, 20–37. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Navarro Tejero, Antonia

2001 Matrimonio y Patriarcado en autoras de la díaspora hindú. Huelva: U de Huelva, Servicio de Publicaciones.

2005 Gender and Caste in the Anglophone-Indian Novels of Arundhati Roy and Githa Hariharan: Feminist Issues in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press.

Nityanandam, Indiera

1995 “Search for Identity: Githa Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night .” In Indian Women Novelists, ed. by R.K. Dhawan, set III vol. 14, 183–192. New Delhi: Prestige Books.

Phelan, James

2005 Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration. London: Cornell University Press.

Petersson, Margareta

2008 Globaliseringens Ansikten: Den Indoengelska Romanen. Stockholm: Carlsson bokförlag.

Rao, K. Damodar

1995 “Penance and Multiple Response in Githa Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night .” In Indian Women Novelists, ed. by R.K. Dhawan, set III vol. 14, 159–169. New Delhi: Prestige Books.

Rege, Josna E

2004 Colonial Karma: Self, Action, and Nation in the Indian English Novel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Roland, Alan

1988 In Search of Self in India and Japan: Towards a Cross-Cultural Psychology. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Sell, Roger D

2000 Literature as Communication: The Foundations of Mediating Criticism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2011 Communicational Criticism: Studies in Literature as Dialogue. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Shree, Geetanjali

2000 [1997] Mai: A Novel. Nita Kumar (trans.). New Delhi: Kali for Women.

Sobti, Krishna

2001 Lyssna min dotter. Annika Persson (trans.). Stockholm: Bokförlaget Tranan.

2002 Listen Girl!. Shiva Nath (trans.). New Delhi: Katha.

2008 [1991] ऐ लड़की ( Ai Laḍki ). New Delhi: Rajkamal Publications.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty

1999 A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

2003 The Death of a Discipline. New York: Colombia University Press.

Strandberg, Lotta

2006 “At the Gates of St Stephens.” Muse India 7. http://www.museindia.com/viewarticle.asp?myr=2006andissid=7andid=314.

2011 Embedded Storytelling and Gender Negotiations in Githa Hariharan’s First Three Novels. Helsinki: Helsinki University Print.

Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari

1993 “The Feminist Plot and the Nationalist Allegory: Home and World in Two Indian Women’s Novels in English.” Modern Fiction Studies 39: 71–92.

2004 “The Heroine’s Progress: Feminism and the Family in the Fiction of Shashi Deshpande, Githa Hariharan and Manjula Padmanabhan.” In Desert in Bloom: Contemporary Indian Women’s Fiction in English, ed. by Meenakshi Bharat, 80–96. New Delhi: Pencraft International.

Westö, Kjell

2006 Där vi en gang gått. Helsingfors: Söderströms.

Yellaiah, J., and G. Pratima

2003 “ ‘Inside and Out There: Male Constructs and Female Choices in Githa Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night .” Kakatiya Journal of English Studies 23: 188–195.