Introduction

Summary

From postcolonialism to the current times of globalization, India and her fiction in English have travelled a long journey. One of the crucial debates that have been at the centre of postliberalization literature is its reception, at home and abroad. As the title suggests, all essays in this volume focus on the reception of the seminal authors and their works of the postliberalization period. The watershed year for postliberalization was 1991, when economic reforms changed the urban Indian landscape. This was also the time when Indian writers of English caught the attention of the Western world like never before. My interest is particularly in such writers whose concerns are related to India in its immediacy and who came into literary prominence in postliberalized India. For this study, I attempt to analyse the perceptual shifts on the receivers (i.e. members of the English-speaking world) as a consequence of liberalization. This shift will be measured in terms of critical reception as well as reception at the university level in English-speaking countries.