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It is well known that the imprint of Indian thought or the image of India in the west covers a wide range of subjects. Writers in Europe and America, as is evident in their literary works, have presented a diverse and highly complex picture of India. Many scholars and writers have endeavoured to explore the inexhaustible heritage of Indian thought, life and society. It must however be noted that it is mainly the writers of Indian diaspora who in their literary ...
The present volume on the fiction of Canadian writer Margaret Laurence and Indian English writer Anita Desai is conceived as a project in comparative framework. It interrogates and critiques significant questions relating to identity, ethnicity, multiculturalism, immigration, globalization, alienation and affirmation that confront the Canadian and Indian society and the literary world. If the Canadian ethos is marked by the 'multicultural mosaic', the Indian ...
Immigrant literature, native writing and cross-cultural studies-are the burgeoning areas of contemporary Canadian writing, and these truly represent the fact of multicultural Canada. The rich diversity of Canada has great similarity to the cultural scenario in India, a country which constitutes several regions and languages. The issue of multiculturalism has acquired importance and urgency in view of the problems inherent in a mix of people with different ...