River Fiction of India: Intersectional Flows of Narratives, Geographies, and Histories [Hardcover]

This book establishes river fiction as an identifiable genre-fiction. It argues that rivers and riverbeds  through myths and legends, ecological and environmental concerns, geographical and historical realities, politics and economics around them  can provide an underlying framework to understand Indian prose fiction.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: Reading the Indian river fiction: Generic movements and intersectional approaches

PART I: NARRATIVES

1 A tale of woe and displacement: Brahmaputra as the perpetual perpetrator in Rudrani Sarmas

2 The river bound humans: Narrative deployment of the river in delineating limitations of human worlds in select Bengali short-fiction

3 Living with the river: Analysing aspects of vulnerability and human-nonhuman relationship in The Boatman of the Padma and The Ganga

4 Those who live beside the river need to be alarmed around the year : Women across rivers in Tarashankar Bandyopadhyays The Tale of Hansuli Turn and Kalindi

5 River as the pathway to performative masculine identity: A reading of Atin Bandyopadhyays Ekti Joler Rekha O Ora Tin Jon

6 River, cityscape and crime: Navigating the Ganges in Satyajit Rays Joi Baba Felunath and Golapi Mukta Rahasya

PART II: GEOGRAPHIES

7 Reading river rites and river resilience in Naga Anglophone novels: An attempt to restore indigenous river rights

8 Separating the waters: Analysing the Partitions impact upon Bengals rivers and chars through select Bengali hydro-fiction

9 Dammed or doomed l³Z