P. B. Gaikwad

The Political Unconscious in the Postmodern Indian Novel: A Marxist Reading of Six Contemporary Texts

This paper applies Fredric Jameson’s theory of the political unconscious to six contemporary Indian English novels published between 1993 and 2011. The selected texts are Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy, Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance, Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown, Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, Aravind Adiga’s...