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Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts

Autor: Esterino Adami

Número de Páginas: 148

Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts is a volume which examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of Indian English in new fictional texts to explore the power of language to construct meaning, express identity, and convey ideology. Specifically, this study proposes the elaboration and application of postcolonial stylistics, i.e. an interdisciplinary methodology that uses different disciplines, such as literary linguistics and postcolonial studies as a critical lens to read contemporary Indian authors like Jeet Thayil, Deepa Anappara, Avni Doshi, Tabish Khair, and Megha Majumdar. The linguistic fabric of their fiction is investigated in a series of case studies, observing the stylistic rendition of a wide range of themes and tropes, such as the representation of Otherness, drug discourse, lament and the senses, which cumulatively portray aspects of the current Indian narrative scenario. The book develops ideas growing out of several disciplines to reach a fuller understanding of cultural phenomena in the postcolonial context, and by extension in the social world.

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Autor: Deepa Anappara

Número de Páginas: 294

'Anappara creates an endearing and highly engaging narrator to navigate us through the dark underbelly of modern India' Observer 'I love this book...I just fell into it' Tayari Jones We children are not just stories. We live. Come and see. Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a boy at school goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from episodes of Police Patrol to find him. With Pari and Faiz by his side, Jai ventures into some of the most dangerous parts of the sprawling Indian city; the bazaar at night, and even the railway station at the end of the Purple Line. But kids continue to vanish, and the trio must confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force and soul-snatching djinns in order to uncover the truth 'A heartrending tale' The Times 'Djinn Patrol is storytelling at its best' Anne Enright

Los detectives de la línea morada

Autor: Deepa Anappara

Número de Páginas: 325

El debut internacional más aclamado de los últimos años. Con la vitalidad de Quién quiere ser millonario y la originalidad de La vida de Pi. Pasadas las calles de un mercado repleto de gente, perros y rickshaws, debajo de un cielo lleno de humo y ya al final de la línea morada de metro, hay un revoltijo de casas con techos de hojalata donde Jai, de nueve años, vive con su familia. Desde su puerta puede ver las luces brillantes de los elegantes rascacielos de la ciudad, que para él parecen estar a miles de kilómetros de distancia. Jai es fan absoluto de los reality shows de policías, así que cuando un compañero de clase desaparece, él decide buscarlo y emplear las habilidades para resolver crímenes que ha aprendido de la televisión. En su investigación, Jai y sus amigos Pari y Faiz se aventurarán en algunas de las partes más peligrosas de la ciudad, pero los niños continúan desapareciendo, y el trío debe enfrentarse a padres aterrorizados, una fuerza policial indiferente y djinns que arrebatan el alma para descubrir la verdad. A medida que las desapariciones se acercan cada vez más a sus casas, las vidas de Jai y sus amigos cambiarán para siempre. El debut...

The Book of Mysteries

Autor: Rebecca Tamás

Número de Páginas: 198

In this vivid blend of memoir, nature writing and ecological thinking, Rebecca Tamás seeks new answers in old folk ways. Suffering from burn-out and grief both environmental and personal, Tamás sets out on a journey across the UK guided by the Pagan wheel of the year, marking each solstice, equinox and the midpoints between them with a ritual drawn from ancient traditions. From a confrontation with the sharp pains of winter at Samhain in Edinburgh to a giddy experience of collective joy at Padstow's May Day, she finds in these traditional practices electric potential for transforming our relationship to the natural world and the flow of time. Intellectually penetrating and richly lyrical, The Book of Mysteries follows the drumbeat of seasonal ritual towards an immersion in the wild time of the earth. Ecstatic, radical and irreverent, this book is a rallying cry to wrest time away from the structures of work and capital, so as to encounter the life-giving mystery of the natural world.

Les Disparus de la Purple Line

Autor: Deepa Anappara

Número de Páginas: 294

" En Inde, 180 enfants enfants disparaissent tous les jours. J'ai écrit ce roman pour faire mentir l'idée selon laquelle ils sont réductibles à des statistiques. Je l'ai écrit pour nous rappeler que derrière les chiffres, il y a des visages. " Deepa Anappara À 9 ans, Jai regarde un peu trop de séries policières et se croit beaucoup plus futé que ses amis Pari et Faiz. Tous les trois vivent avec leurs familles dans une mégalopole indienne noyée dans le smog, entre la décharge et les allées grouillantes du Bhoot Bazar. Quand un de leurs camarades de classe manque à l'appel et que les autorités ferment les yeux, Jai décide d'employer ses talents de détective, acquis au fil des épisodes de Police Patrol, pour mener l'enquête. Le trio s'aventure ainsi sur la Purple Line, la ligne de métro locale, et dans les coins les plus dangereux de la ville. Mais ce qui n'était au début qu'un jeu tourne vite au drame lorsque les disparitions s'enchaînent, jusqu'à toucher Jai en plein coeur. Pour découvrir la vérité, les enquêteurs en herbe devront affronter des parents impuissants et dévastés, des forces de l'ordre corrompues et les djinns qui hantent les rues sombres ...

Urban Informality and Narrative Form

Autor: Eric Prieto

Número de Páginas: 252

Urban Informality and Narrative Form brings together literary analysis and spatial planning theory in an interdisciplinary study of urban informality. It examines a diverse array of literary and cinematic fictions from across the globe—West and North Africa, West and South Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America—in dialogue with influential social scientific studies of urban informality. Leading scholar Eric Prieto explores the formal and representational strategies authors have used to address the realities of life in the informal city. He demonstrates the ability of literary texts to provide significant insights into the kinds of real-world concerns that preoccupy planning and policy specialists but that have remained resistant to the more traditional methodologies of urban studies and planning. The book sheds new light on the forces that have led to the prevalence of urban informality in the Global South, while also debunking some common misconceptions about the phenomenon, highlighting the great diversity of subjective experiences hidden behind the euphemistic “informal settlement” (or the more pejorative “slum”), and identifying some of the most promising ways...

Otros nombres para el amor

Autor: Taymour Soomro

Número de Páginas: 196

A sus dieciséis años, Fahad espera poder pasar el verano con su madre en Londres. Pero su padre, Rafik, tiene otros planes: quiere llevarse a su hijo a rastras a Abad, a la hacienda de la familia, en el interior de Pakistán. Rafik pretende convertir a Fahad, un niño sensible, en un hombre hecho y derecho, y enseñárselo todo sobre el poder, el deber y la familia. Para ello, le pide ayuda a un joven de la zona, Ali, con la esperanza de que sea un buen ejemplo para Fahad. Sin embargo, durante el transcurso de un verano, surge la atracción entre ambos chicos, y Fahad se ve seducido por la naturaleza salvaje de la tierra y de sus habitantes: la gente que venera y critica a su padre; su primo Mousey, que vive solo con un hombre al que llama su «administrador de fincas»; y, sobre todo, Ali, que amenaza con desenterrar todo lo que yacía oculto. Varias décadas después, Fahad está viviendo en Londres cuando recibe una llamada de su madre, que le pide que vuelva a Abad. Su regreso lo obligará a enfrentarse al pasado. Otros nombres para el amor, de Taymour Soomro, es una novela sobre la masculinidad, la herencia y el anhelo, con el telón de fondo de la turbulenta historia de un ...

The Last of Earth

Autor: Deepa Anappara

Número de Páginas: 353

From the award-winning author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line comes a stunning historical novel set in nineteenth-century Tibet that follows two outsiders—an Indian schoolteacher spying for the British Empire and an English “lady” explorer—as they venture into a forbidden kingdom. “A riveting novel that takes on the hubris of exploration, the pursuit of immortality, and the abiding nature of love and friendship.”—Laila Lalami, author of The Dream Hotel 1869. Tibet is closed to Europeans, an infuriating obstruction for the rap­idly expanding British Empire. In response, Britain begins training Indians—permitted to cross borders that white men may not—to undertake illicit, dangerous surveying expeditions into Tibet. Balram is one such surveyor-spy, an Indian schoolteacher who, for several years, has worked for the British, often alongside his dearest friend, Gyan. But Gyan went missing on his last expedition and is rumored to be imprisoned within Tibet. Desperate to rescue his friend, Balram agrees to guide an English captain on a foolhardy mission: After years of paying others to do the exploring, the captain, disguised as a monk, wants to personally chart a...

Manushi

Número de Páginas: 300

A journal about women and society.

Feminist Periodicals

Número de Páginas: 656

Talking Book Topics

Número de Páginas: 512

Letters to a Writer of Colour

Autor: Deepa Anappara , Taymour Soomro

Número de Páginas: 211

Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of colour. 'Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call all at once' Laila Lalami, author of Conditional Citizens 'A whip-smart collection' Kamila Shamsie, author of Best of Friends What if we reconsidered our assumptions about how fiction should be written? And can we then apply our discoveries to both what we read and how we read? This book explores these questions and encourages us into a more inclusive conversation about storytelling, featuring: • Taymour Soomro on resisting rigid stories about who you are • Madeleine Thien on how writing builds the room in which it can exist • Amitava Kumar on why authenticity isn't a license we carry in our wallets • Tahmima Anam on giving herself permission to be funny • Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the bodily challenge of writing about trauma • Zeyn Joukhadar on queering English and the power of refusing to translate ourselves • Kiese Laymon on hearing that...

The Last of Earth

Autor: Deepa Anappara

Número de Páginas: 420

* One of BBC's '12 books you need to read in 2026' * A Guardian 'Book to Look Out For in 2026' * From the Women's Prize-longlisted author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line comes a stunning historical novel about two outsiders who venture into the Forbidden Kingdom of Tibet, both driven by a motive they are desperate to keep secret In 1869, the mountainous territory of Tibet is closed to foreigners, an infuriating obstacle to Europeans racing to expand their empires. In response, Britain begins training Indians – permitted to cross borders that white men may not – to undertake illicit, perilous expeditions within Tibet. Balram is one such surveyor-spy, recruited to guide an English captain on a foolhardy mission. His path will soon cross with that of another unlikely explorer, Katherine. Fleeing a life of frustrated ambition, belittled by her male peers, Katherine has a plan to secure her legacy as the first European woman to reach Lhasa and the legendary Potala Palace. As they battle to survive, Balram and Katherine face storms and bandits, snow leopards and soldiers, fevers and frostbite. But nothing is more dangerous than the secrets that snap at their heels, in this...

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Autor: Deepa Anappara

Número de Páginas: 0

Discover the “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) debut novel that “announces the arrival of a literary supernova” (The New York Times Book Review),“a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate” (Chigozie Obioma). WINNER OF THE EDGAR® AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • The Washington Post • NPR • The Guardian • Library Journal In a sprawling Indian city, a boy ventures into its most dangerous corners to find his missing classmate. . . . Through market lanes crammed with too many people, dogs, and rickshaws, past stalls that smell of cardamom and sizzling oil, below a smoggy sky that doesn’t let through a single blade of sunlight, and all the way at the end of the Purple metro line lies a jumble of tin-roofed homes where nine-year-old Jai lives with his family. From his doorway, he can spot the glittering lights of the city’s fancy high-rises, and though his mother works as a maid in one, to him they seem a thousand miles away. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line plunges readers deep into this neighborhood to trace the unfolding of a tragedy through the ...

The Last of Earth

Autor: Deepa Anappara

Número de Páginas: 337

1869. Tibet is closed to Europeans, an infuriating obstruction for the rapidly expanding British Empire. In response, Britain begins training Indians—permitted to cross borders that white men may not—to undertake illicit, dangerous surveying expeditions into Tibet. Balram is one such surveyor-spy, an Indian schoolteacher who, for several years, has worked for the British, often alongside his dearest friend, Gyan. But Gyan went missing on his last expedition and is rumored to be imprisoned within Tibet. Desperate to rescue his friend, Balram agrees to guide an English captain on a foolhardy mission: After years of paying others to do the exploring, the captain, disguised as a monk, wants to personally chart a river that runs through southern Tibet. Their path will cross fatefully with that of another Westerner in disguise, fifty-year-old Katherine. Denied a fellowship in the all-male Royal Geographical Society in London, she intends to be the first European woman to reach Lhasa. As Balram and Katherine make their way into Tibet, they will face storms and bandits, snow leopards and soldiers, fevers and frostbite. What’s more, they will have to battle their own doubts,...

Djinn

Autor: Deepa Anappara

Djinn är en berättelse baserad på verkliga händelser. Det är en oförglömlig roman om fantasi, mod, utsatthet och kamratskap. En brännande skildring av Indien av idag. Deepa Anappara är prisbelönad journalist, uppvuxen i Kerala i södra Indien. Djinn är hennes debutroman.

Les disparus de la Purple line

Autor: Deepa Anappara

Número de Páginas: 836

Letters to a Writer of Color

Autor: Deepa Anappara , Taymour Soomro

Número de Páginas: 273

A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work “Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call all at once.”—Laila Lalami, author of Conditional Citizens Filled with empathy and wisdom, instruction and inspiration, this book encourages us to reevaluate the codes and conventions that have shaped our assumptions about how fiction should be written, and also challenges us to apply its lessons to both what we read and how we read. Featuring: • Taymour Soomro on resisting rigid stories about who you are • Madeleine Thien on how writing builds the room in which it can exist • Amitava Kumar on why authenticity isn’t a license we carry in our wallets • Tahmima Anam on giving herself permission to be funny • Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the bodily challenge of writing about trauma • Zeyn Joukhadar on queering English and the power of refusing to translate ourselves • Myriam Gurba on the empowering circle of Latina writers she...

Os detetives da Linha Púrpura

Autor: Deepa Anappara

Número de Páginas: 376

Em seu aclamado romance de estreia, Deepa Anappara retrata a busca por crianças desaparecidas na Índia metropolitana através do olhar de um menino. Publicado em mais de vinte países e eleito um dos livros do ano por veículos como The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time e NPR. Jai tem nove anos e é fã de séries policiais. Quando um garoto da escola desaparece, ele e seus amigos Pari e Faiz resolvem fazer as vezes de detetives e desbravar alguns dos lugares mais perigosos da cidade indiana onde vivem em busca de pistas. Mas o que começou como uma simples brincadeira ganha contornos sinistros à medida que mais crianças somem sem explicação. Para desvendar o mistério, o trio terá que enfrentar ameaças desconhecidas, pais apavorados e uma polícia negligente — enquanto põem à prova os limites de sua própria ingenuidade. Baseado em incidentes reais, Os detetives da Linha Púrpura combina suspense e emoção ao tratar dos frequentes desaparecimentos de crianças indianas. Ao capturar a resiliência, a alegria e a vivacidade de seus personagens ficcionais a partir da narração de Jai, Deepa Anappara nos faz lembrar que por trás dos números há sempre um rosto ...

Djinn patrouille op de Paarse Lijn

Autor: Deepa Anappara

Número de Páginas: 292

Ontluisterende roman over het moderne India