Consumable Texts In Contemporary India: Uncultured Books And Bibliographical Sociology Hardcover

India

Suman Gupta

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.

1137489286

9781137489289

English

Palgrave MacMillan

20 Feb 2015

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.

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)