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The author would like to share with readers his collection of fifteen essays on Indian fictional writing and poetry in English, as it reflects his lifelong commitment to Indian literary culture.
This sequence of chronologically arranged essays written over a period of half a century reflects his outside observer’s growing familiarity with Indian English writing. It permits insight into its thematic, formal and stylistic shifts and changes as much as into ...
Dieter Riemenschneider's fresh study approaches the Indian novel in English from the angle of its diverse range of readings by Indian and international critics over a period of six decades, or from the beginnings of a critical discourse in the 1930s until the present time. The investigation into the reception of the novel genre as such and of the works of its three 'founding fathers', viz., Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao. The latter chapters are ...
Postcolonial literature – in the past variously referred to as Commonwealth literature, the New or World literatures in English – has not only found its way into university classrooms all over the world but has also triggered an immense number of critical studies, so much so that it is high time for a useful research aid to assist students and teachers in finding their way through ‘the bush’ of postcolonial studies. This selected and annotated ...