This book establishes river fiction as an identifiable genre-fiction. It argues that rivers and riverbeds-through myths and legends, ecological and environmental concerns, geographical and historical realities, politics and economics around them-can provide an underlying framework to understand Indian prose fiction. With essays on river fiction across India, the volume presents a new way of understanding and reading South Asian literature. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism and South Asian studies.

Subhadeep Ray is an Associate Professor of English at Bidhan Chandra College, Asansol, West Bengal, India, and a Visiting Professor of English at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, India.