Pradeep Kumar Sharma

Historiographic Metafiction, Paratext and the Politics of Retelling in the Bharat Novels of Ashwin Sanghi

This paper approaches Ashwin Sanghi's Bharat Collection not primarily as an instance of mythological fiction, as most existing criticism does, but as a body of historiographic metafiction in Linda Hutcheon's sense: fiction that is at once self-consciously artificial and insistently anchored to verifiable historical and...