Constructing a new canon of post-1980s Indian English fiction

The literary canon implies the evaluation or estimation of certain literary texts as the most important during a particular time.

The canon is not merely a set of texts; it is a set of standards, evaluative procedures and values.

Belonging to a canon confers a guarantee of literary greatness.

A canon is formed, by a particular group, to channelize cultural hegemony over others, or, can be constructed, by a governed group, to bring about cultural symmetry.

This book looks into the process of literary canon formation in Indian universities, and examines such fiction as an alternative literary canon and as an anti-imperialistic response to the British literary canon.