Indian Popular Fiction: New Genres, Novel Spaces

Prem Kumari Srivastava and Mona Sinha's Indian Popular Fiction: New Genres, Novel Spaces is a big intervention in the way 'popular' genres in India are read, understood and analysed. In order to redefine the term 'popular', the anthology has included selected critical essays on literary writings, films, media reports and publishers' accounts among others. The volume, thus, is a reminder that the "Indian popular' is not only a complex entity of interdisciplinarity, but when it comes to teaching and researching, there are several challenges to its critical and pedagogical practices, particularly for a student of literary studies. - Raj Kumar, Professor and Head, Department of English, University of Delhi Truly topical Indian Popular Fiction: New Genres, Novel Spaces by Prem Kumari Srivastava and Mona Sinha of the university of Delhi captures the contemporary currents of change in the rapidly mutating and internet-driven creative and publishing world of Indian popular fiction. With twelve well-researched chapters and a second introducton, the book uncovers the challenging, experimental and fresh ideas that several young creaive authors of today are innvating with to reach out to their readers. A valuable read for researchers, scholars and ehthusiasts of contemporary Indian popular fiction.