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Reading New India is an insightful exploration of contemporary Indian writing in English. Exploring the work of such writers as Aravind Adiga (author of the Man-Booker Prize winning White Tiger), Usha K. R. and Taseer, the book looks at how the 'new' India has been recreated and defined in an English Language literature that is now reaching a global audience. The book describes how Indian fiction has moved beyond notions of 'postcolonial' writing to reflect an increasingly confident and diverse cultures.

Reading New India covers such topics as:

 Representations of the city - from Mumbai to Calcutta
 Young India - from Chick Lit to Blog Novels
 Genre fiction - crime novels, science fiction and fantasy
 Bollywood adaptations and Graphic Novels.

Including a chronological time-line of major social, cultural and political reforms, biographies of the major authors covered, further reading and a glossary of Hindi terms, this book is an essential guide for students of contemporary world literature and postcolonial writing. Emma Dawson is Sessional English Lecturer at Keele University, UK. An experienced field researcher on world literature, she is author of Beyond the Postcolonial: World Englishes Literature (Palgrave, 2012) and editor of numerous anthologies of short stories from such countries as Cameroon, Uganda and Malaysia.