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Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context – their productions, circulations and readerships – to understand current social trends.
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Keywords
- Youth
- group discussion
- value education
- commercial fiction
- Indian English
- Indian vernaculars
- publishing industry
- Mein Kampf
- global and local
- popular culture
- mass culture
- business communication
- Asia
- Asian culture
- Asian languages
- cultural theory
- culture
- English
- ethnicity
- history of literature
- linguistics
- literary theory
- literature
- social science
- sociology
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Reviews
“Gupta displays an easy familiarity with an admirable range of both, the academic and the non-academic—as well as cultured and uncultured—literatures and discourses, and not only applies them to a range of topics and issues that are unexpected (to say the least), but with remarkably accurate, insightful and incisive results. The analyses are subtle, sophisticated and frighteningly persuasive in their implications for the sheer reach and impact of such uncultured books, and the political and ideological effects they are likely to have.” (P K Vijayan, Economic Political Weekly, Vol. 51 (36), September 3, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Suman Gupta is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University UK. He is the author of eleven previous books and editor of seven, including The Theory and Reality of Democracy, Social Constructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies, Globalization and Literature, Imagining Iraq and Contemporary Literature: The Basics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Consumable Texts in Contemporary India
Book Subtitle: Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology
Authors: Suman Gupta
Series Title: New Directions in Book History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137489296
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48928-9Published: 20 February 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50418-3Published: 01 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48929-6Published: 23 February 2015
Series ISSN: 2634-6117
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 204
Topics: Asian Culture, Asian Literature, Asian Languages, Sociology of Culture, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory