Subject: Re: [SASIALIT] My new book on South Asian fiction now published
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:38:35 -0800


Paul, glad to hear about your book. Sounds very interesting. It's good to
have more writing on contributions of South Asian authors to English
literature. Look forward to reading it.

Regards,
Laila Kazmi
http://www.jazbah.org


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From: "Paul Brians" <brians-AT-mail.wsu.edu>
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Subject: [SASIALIT] My new book on South Asian fiction now published


> According to Greenwood Press, they are now shipping copies of my
> book, _Modern South Asian Literature in English_, containing essays
> on Attia Hosain, Jhumpa Lahiri, Rohinton Mistry, Bharati Mukherjee,
> R. K. Narayan, Michael Ondaatje, Raja Rao, Arundhati Roy, Salman
> Rushdie, Shyam Selvadurai, Khushwant Singh, Bapsi Sidhwa, Manil Suri,
> and Rabindranath Tagore. ISBN: 031332011X. List price $49.95, but
> available from Barnes & Noble online for $39.96. 296 pages, hardcover.
>
> Those interested in publishing reviews of the book can send inquiries
> to Alex Petri at   apetri-AT-greenwood.com (I don't know how many review
> copies they'll be sending out, but it's worth asking if you can
> guarantee a published review).
>
> This is part of a series aimed at readers beginning to explore world
> literature: high school and beginning college students, plus members
> of reading groups, etc. I was specifically asked not to include
> scholarly apparatus and to eschew theoretical and technical jargon.
> The bibliographies supplied are not meant to document the chapters,
> but to provide sources for further exploration. There is a detailed
> glossary of words and phrases in the back of the book which covers
> the featured fiction. Works focused on were chosen for their
> approachability. Thus although _Midnight's Children_ and his other
> novels are briefly discussed, the focus of the Rushdie chapter is on
> _East, West_.
>
> Although the original market was supposed to be libraries, I think it
> could also serve as a core text for beginning courses on South Asian
> Anglophone fiction.
>
> I tried to get Greenwood to change the title to "Modern South Asian
> Fiction in English" since it doesn't cover poetry or drama, but they
> insisted on sticking with "literature" to keep the title uniform with
> others in their series "Literature as Windows to World Cultures." A
> minor point, but I don't want you to think I'm unaware of the
> inconsistency. Note that in my introduction I issue some warnings
> about the use of fiction as a "window" on a culture; I'm not buying
> in to all the implications of the series title.
>
> I hope you find it useful.
>
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