Consumable Texts in Contemporary India - S. Gupta

Consumable Texts in Contemporary India

Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
204 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-50418-3 (ISBN)
53,45 inkl. MwSt
Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context – their productions, circulations and readerships – to understand current social trends.

Suman Gupta is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University UK. He is the author of eleven previous books and editor of seven, including The Theory and Reality of Democracy, Social Constructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies, Globalization and Literature, Imagining Iraq and Contemporary Literature: The Basics.

Acknowledgements 1. Keywords and Preliminaries 2. Indian Commercial Fiction in English 3. Indian Vernacular Pulp Fiction in English Translation 4. On the Indian Readers of Hitler's Mein Kampf 5. Framing Group Discussion Guidebooks 6. Low-End Group Discussion Guidebooks and Kunjis 7. Approaching Public Sector 'Value Education' Publications 8. Mapping Public Sector 'Value Education' Publications 9. Rules of Bibliographical Sociology's Method Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie New Directions in Book History
New Directions in Book History
Zusatzinfo X, 204 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte Business Communication • commercial fiction • global and local • Group Discussion • Indian English • Indian vernaculars • Mass Culture • Mein Kampf • popular culture • publishing industry • value education • Youth
ISBN-10 1-349-50418-1 / 1349504181
ISBN-13 978-1-349-50418-3 / 9781349504183
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