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Gender anxiety and contemporary Indian popular fiction

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dc.contributor.authorTurner, Elen
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T23:26:55Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.updated2015-12-10T11:03:05Z
dc.description.abstractIn her article "Gender Anxiety and Contemporary Indian Popular Fiction" Elen Turner discusses two examples of Indian "popular literature" which reflect contemporary Indian middleclass anxieties surrounding globalization and social change. The recent proliferation of foreign business process outsourcing companies in India has changed the financial and lifestyle opportunities available to young, urban Indians. While sociological and ethnographic studies have found that workers embrace what they perceive to be westernized lifestyles, the novels under discussion present a more nuanced picture. Chetan Bhagat's One Night at the Call Centre (2005) and Shruti Saxena's Stilettos in the Boardroom (2010) demonstrate that young workers embrace and enjoy the freedom accorded them by working in outsourced companies. The texts also show that a tension exists between individualism and traditional social and familial practices.
dc.identifier.issn1481-4374
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/67983
dc.publisherPurdue University Press
dc.sourceCLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture
dc.titleGender anxiety and contemporary Indian popular fiction
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.contributor.affiliationTurner, Elen, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidTurner, Elen, u4597415
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor169901 - Gender Specific Studies
local.identifier.ariespublicationf5625xPUB1581
local.identifier.citationvolume14
local.identifier.doi10.7771/1481-4374.1966
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84862833927
local.identifier.thomsonID000299667500006
local.type.statusPublished Version

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