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R.K. Narayan
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ISBN: 1781701245 1847791964 9781847791962 9781781701249 9780719059278 0719059275 9780719059261 0719059267 1847795366 Year: 2007 Publisher: Manchester New York New York Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave

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Abstract

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

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