Novels of Manju Kapur-A Critical Study is a collection of scholarly research papers and articles, presenting an analysis of Kapur’s novels in order to assess and evaluate her place in the contemporary Indian English Fiction. Kapur shot into fame with her debut novel Difficult Daughters (1998) . The novel won for her the prestigious Commonwealth Eurasia Region Award for the best debut novel of 1999. After that she brought out A Married Woman (2002), ...
Partition: The Trauma of Partitioned Lives- in Films & Fiction
This compendium of 31 papers attempts to explore and reinterpret the works of major partition fiction and films to critically understand the trauma of separation during the turbulent times of Partition of India. It focuses on the partition violence, communal identity, plight of women, scourge of riots and communal disharmony, dislocation and disintegration, and atrocities on women. The novels and films studied in this book include Train to Pakistan, Ice Candy ...
Glimpses of Partition in South-Asian Fiction: A Critical Reinterpretation
