Contemporary English-language Indian children's literature : representations of nation, culture, and the new Indian girl /
Michelle Superle.
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- xiii, 200 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.
Introduction: Contemporary English-language Indian children's novels as aspirational literature -- The development of contemporary, English-language Indian children's novels -- Indian women writers: imagining the new Indian girl -- Imagining unity in diversity through cooperation and friendship -- Imagining and performing the Indian nation -- Imagining "Indianness" -- Imagining identity in the diaspora: performing a "masala" self -- Performing new Indian girlhood -- Conclusion: Old and new boundaries.