TY - BOOK ID - 77892267 TI - R. K. Narayan PY - 2013 SN - 1781701245 1847791964 9781847791962 9781781701249 9780719059278 0719059275 9780719059261 0719059267 1847795366 PB - Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - National characteristics, East Indian, in literature. KW - Malgudi (India : Imaginary place) KW - Imaginary places KW - Narayan, R. K., KW - Nārāyaṇa, R. K., KW - Narayanswami, Rasipuram Krishnaswami KW - Narayana Swami, Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer, KW - Naraĭan, Razipuram Krishnasvami, KW - Naraĭan, R. K. KW - Narayansawami, Rasipuram Krishnaswamier, KW - Nārāyaṇ, Ār. Kē., KW - נאראיאן, ר.ק., KW - נראיאן, ר. ק., KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - India KW - In literature. KW - Malgudi (India : Imaginary place). KW - Literature KW - Literary Studies: Post-Colonial Literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic KW - Indian writing. KW - Indianness. KW - Malgudi. KW - R. K. Narayan. KW - cultural geography. KW - fiction. KW - founding figures. KW - inescapability of change. KW - modernity. KW - non-Indian intertexts. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77892267 AB - R.K. Narayan's reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of "authentic" Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its non-Indian intertexts. The study also considers the effect that Narayan's writing for overseas publication had on novels such as Swami and Friends, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi.Narayan's imaginary ER -