TY - BOOK AU - Srivastava,Prem Kumari AU - Sinha,Mona TI - INDIAN POPULAR FICTION SN - 9781000482805 U1 - 891.4 PY - 2021/// CY - [S.l.] PB - ROUTLEDGE KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - Indic fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Popular literature KW - India N2 - The scholarly essays in this book open up experimental and novel spaces and genres beyond the traditional and the literary world of Indian Popular Fiction as it existed towards the end of the last millennium. They respond to the possibilities opened up by the technology-driven and internet-savvy reading and writing world of today. Contemporaneous and bold, most of the essays resonate with the racy and fast-paced milieu and social media space inhabited by today's youth. Combative in its drift, this book makes possible an attempt to disband hierarchies and dismantle categories that have engulfed the expansive landscape of Indian Popular Fiction for too long. It facilitates discussion on graphic novels, microfiction, popular-entertainment and political satire on television and celluloid, social media-driven romances existing in the domain of the 'real' rather than that of 'fantasy' and mythological readings against the backdrop of gender and politics. Aimed at facilitating further research by scholars and enthusiasts of Indian Popular Fiction, this book is also an ode to the current trends generated by social and internet media cosmos. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003239949 ER -