Abstract

Contemporary Indian English-language fiction marks both a continuous focus on the Indian family as central to society, and also a break from the traditional socialisations of family life. Shifting away from the former calls for reform of marital conventions to accommodate individual needs and many recent novels show families to be dysfunctional sites of domestic violence, incest, extramarital affairs and divorce. Moreover, under the impact of better levels of education, urbanisation and expatriation, the novels of young professional experience tend to portray one's peers as a surrogate family. The idea of family, however, persists.

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