TY - BOOK ID - 136286546 TI - The novel in South and South East Asia since 1945 PY - 2019 SN - 9780198745419 0198745419 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - English fiction KW - South Asian fiction (English) KW - Southeast Asian fiction (English) KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136286546 AB - Employs a unique three-part structure covering South Asia, South East Asia, and "cross-border" fictions and is the first work of its kind to provide a single comparative assessment of the novel across South and South East Asia, and in migrant lines of travel in and beyond these regions. Both an introduction and a scholarly resource, it covers internationally recognized novelists but also showcases forgotten under-represented writers and their works. The volume provides comprehensive survey chapters on individual national traditions, comprising the anglophone novel of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Mainland China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Myanmar. Its historical and geographical reach takes in late colonial fictions, war novels of Korea and Vietnam, and autobiographical fictions of the Chinese Cultural Revolution; its formal scope spans multi-volume historical epics, political fictions, and graphic novels. The development of the South and South East Asian novel in English is further contextualized in chapters on publishing and book history, and new forms of genre fiction. ER -