Popular Literature : Texts, Contexts, Contestations.

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I Juvenile Literature -- The Proper and the Pure: Biopolitics, Law and Sujectivity in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book -- Making the Chessboard Smooth: Popular as "Nonsense" in Through the Looking Glass -- Narrative Function and Identity in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist -- Section II Science Fiction -- Hail the Monster and Fie the Man: The Construction of Monstrosity in Frankenstein -- Rethinking Sciences, Situations and Bamboo-groves in Ray's Science Fictions: Guessing Who Speaks What -- Utopia as Dystopia: Subjectivity at the Limits of Subjection in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit -- Section III Crime and Detective Fiction -- Reclaiming the Elementaries of Context: Ponderings on Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles -- "Our mysterious neighbour, Mr. Poirot": Locating the 'Other' Detective in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd -- "What Shall I see in my dreams tonight?": Reading the Repressed in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White -- Section IV Romance -- Trauma as Calamity or Capital?: The Aporia of Representation and the Ethics of Reading in Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl -- Phantasmagoria of the Hegemonic Cultural Structure: Interrogating the Indian Urban Facade in Chetan Bhagat's Half Girlfriend -- Relocating the Classic as Popular: Reading Jane Eyre as a Romance -- Post Script -- Why my Children Love Cinderella and I Don't: Negotiations with a Classic-Popular Fairy Tale -- About the Contributors.

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