TY  - BOOK
AU  - Superle,Michelle
TI  - Contemporary English-language Indian children's literature : representations of nation, culture, and the new Indian girl
SN  - 9780415886345 (acidfree paper)
U1  - 820.992820954 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Children's literature, Indic (English)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Indic fiction (English)
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Children
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - India
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - In literature
N1  - 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
ER  -