Forthcoming South Asian Literature Books

Forthcoming Books

1. A Woman's Ramayana

   Candravati's Bengali Epic

   By Mandakranta Bose, Sarika Bose

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   The Ramayana, an ancient epic of India, with audiences across vast stretches of time and geography, continues to influence numberless readers socially and morally through its many re-tellings. Made available in English for the first time, the 16th century version presented here is by Candravati, a...

   To Be Published June 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema

   Salman Rushdie’s Novels and the Cinematic Imagination

   By Florian Stadtler

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author’s arguments about post-independence postcolonial India. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, such as the ‘Social’,...

   To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Security, Socialisation and Affect in Indian Families

   Unfamiliar Ground

   Edited by Ira Raja

   Sociological studies on the Indian family have been mainly preoccupied with quantitative and morphological aspects of household form/composition, to the neglect of the more 'ineffable' dimensions of family life and relationships. The present volume brings together ten chapters with an...

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film

   Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness

   Edited by Diana Dimitrova

   This book focuses on South Asian religion, literature and film. It analyses various aspects of the cultural phenomenon of being ‘the other" of the process of "othering" and of the representation of "otherness" and its religious, cultural, and ideological implications. Closely examining the...

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora

   Secularism, Religion, Representations

   Edited by Claire Chambers, Caroline Herbert

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   This book provides the first book-length critical evaluation of representations of Muslims from South Asia and its diaspora. It provides an analysis of literary, cultural, media, and cinematic representations of South Asian Muslims during the last few decades, and especially since September 11th,...

   To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
6. Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan

   Spies and Fundamentalists

   By Cara Cilano

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Through an analysis of a variety of US and Pakistani novels and films since 9/11 Cara Cilano focuses on how such fictions construct an understanding of history through the portrayal of two stock characters in the espionage genre: the spy and the spy’s nemesis, who, in this context, is the religious...

   To Be Published April 29th 2014 by Routledge