Bijay Kumar Das
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Evaluation of Postmodern Indian English Literature which refers to the works of literature after 1980 is not an easy task. It has transcended the local and transformed into global, successfully meeting the challenges of the Bhasa literatures at home and Postcolonial literature and Anglo-American literatures abroad. If Raja Rao's Kanthapura Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981) and Nissim Ezeliel's Latter-day Psalms (1982) mark postmodernism in India English ...
Nissim Ezekiel's name is synonymous with Modern Indian English poetry. This book contains a critical evaluation of his poems. It reveals the thematic variety of the poems, contemporariness of the subjects, social relevance of the themes chosen, styles, techniques etc. While the book praises the poetic talents of Ezekiel, it laments the decline of the poetic craft during the later years. This is an invaluable addition to the "Indian Writers Series."
The present book is an attempt to analyse some of the outstanding post-colonial writers like Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize winner 1997), Vikram Chandra (Commonwealth Prize winner 1997), Derek Walcott (Nobel Prize winner), Margaret Atwood (Booker Prize winner 2000), Jayanta Mahapatram, Dom Moraes, Nissim Ezekiel, Keki N. Daruwalla, Kamala Das, Shiv K. Kumar, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Ruskin Bond (all Sahitya Akademi Award winners) in the light Post-Colonial ...
The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra is an incisive and well-researched book. It makes an in-depth study of the poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra from Close the Sky Ten by Ten to Shadow Space. Various aspects of his poetry ranging from thematic study to technical accomplishment have been discussed here with insight and precision. The concluding chapter seeks to evaluate Mahapatra as a Modernist, Post-Modernist and finally, a Post-Colonial poet. This is an invaluable book on ...
Shiv K. Kumar as a Post-colonial Poet is an incisive and well-researched book. It makes an indepth study of the entire corpus of Shiv K. Kumar’s poetry from all angles—themes, images, idioms, post-coloniality and technical accomplishments. The concluding chapter lays emphasis on Kumar’s contribution to post-colonial Indian English poetry. This is an invaluable book on Kumar’s poetry, meant both for the common readers and specialists in the field.
Like criticism, translation is always a text about a text and hence it is a metatext. We translate by intuition. There is no 'Science of Translating' though there are scientific theories of translation. In this book, the author has made a thorough analysis of various aspects of Translation Studies-both in the East and the West. Apart from making a background study of Translation, he has analysed Translation as Creative Writing, as Linguistic ...
Studies in Postcolonial Literature contains twenty-three papers and two interviews with two eminent writers on different genres--poetry, fiction, short fiction and drama--of Postcolonial Literature. It deals with literatures in English outside the Anglo-American tradition. The book focuses on how Postcolonial Literature assumes an identity of its own in spite of the writers drawn from different countries with distinct national identities. This is a very useful ...
Modern Indian Theatre came into being with the establishment of Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music and Dance Drama and the National School of Drama in the1950s and 60s. The best known four playwrights -- Mohan Rakesh, Girish Karnad, Badal Sircar and Vijay Tendulkar -- dominated the Indian theatre for quite a long time. Mahesh Dattani appeared on the horizon in the 1980s and revolutionized both Indian English play and theatre. He shot into fame ...