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What good luck it is to have a selection of Subodh Sarkar's powerful poems in English translation. This is a happy day for literature."
- Christopher Merrill, American poet, the Director of IWP at the University of Iowa and author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood.
“Reading Subodh’s love poems, one tends to understand that here is a poet with a different voice where boldness and disquietness co-exist...His voice is farm and like a whip lash when ...
The book is an attempt to critically analyse and evaluate the diverse domains of Jayanta Mahapatras works. A man becomes a saint by conquering the senses. Jayanta Mahapatra attains sainthood in writing sublime lines. There is an aesthetic dialectic between the beautiful and the painful between joy of living and the sad threats in daily mundane matters. Losing ones identity metaphorically is much like death. Land and sociological identity play an important role in ...
The book makes a comprehensive evaluation of some of the major Indian writers, films, box-office hits, critics/theorists in English and also focus on some of the issues vital to contemporary Indian literary criticism. Even though much is available as scattered pieces in the field, there has seldom been an effort to bring together the major writers for close scrutiny in a single volume. Similarly, the efforts to highlight the issues of contemporary criticism with ...
Jayanta Mahapatra (b. 1928) is one of the leading contemporary Indian poets writing in English. His sphere of pursuits is very wide. The Indian Imagination of Jayanta Mahapatra critically examines various themes in the works of jayanta Mahapatra. It is a compilation of critical articles of reputed scholars of Jayanta Mahapatra's works. This book is probably the first book that critically assesses almost all aspects of Jayanta Mahapatra's Work. His strength is ...
Raja Rao (b. 1908), India’s first modernist, is one of the three major novelists of Pre-Independence India. He showed how English could be moulded into tempo and rhythm of Indian experience. Raja Rao modified English syntax and structure to suit his purpose. Raja Rao, an iconoclast in many perspectives, brought an epic breadth of richness to Indian fiction. Raja Rao: The Master and his Moves is a collection of research articles from the pen of scholars on Raja ...
The present anthology of research articles is a modest survey of the trends and techniques in Indian Poetry in English in recent time. The book examines Indian Poetry in terms of the contexts, language and poetic forms. Major poets and their new counterparts are discussed and many of their poems come in for contemporary readings. The new generation of poets (including the poets of Indian diaspora) with their plurality of expressive modes and ...
Intellectual Australian interest is not a new phenomenon. Homi K. Bhabha declares in Nation and Narration that "The Nations of Europe and Asia meet in Australia. "It happens to be a seemingly simple statement for an immensely varied geographical, cultural, linguistic and literary space. A settler colony is a space to reconcile indigenous and settler population. Australia is essentially a multicultural and multiethnic country. It is suggested that ...
Presentations of Postcolonialism: New Orientations is a collection of essays which sets out to open the possible limits of the postcolonialism as a literary/social discourse. Postcolonialism, moving beyond the paradigm of so-called critical practice, has come to represent a complex web of meaning produced through multiple strategies of reading and interpreting it. The present collection of critical essays represents myriad, interesting and insightful explorations ...
Indian Women's Writings in English is a collection of research essays dealing with Indian women's writing. Each essay engages with key debates relating to the society and the status of women in India's literature and history. India has always been the undisputed land that placed women on a high pedestal and offered respect. A woman deified as 'Adi Shakti' is the centre of family role-relationship and society even in modern India. Biological differences never came ...
Basavaraj Naikar : Trends and Techniques is a significant contribution to the area of Indian Writing in English. India is essentially a multicultural/multiethnic country. It happens to be a seemingly simple book for an immensely varied geographical, cultural, linguistic and literary space; a personal space reconciles with social space. Intellectual interest on Naikar is not a new phenomenon. This edited anthology of research articles aims at providing an ...
Women's Writing in English: India and Australia is a collection of essays which sets out to open the possible limits of the women's writing as a literary as well as social discourse. Moving beyond the plot of so-called critical practice it has come to represent a complex web of meaning produced through multiple strategies of reading and interpreting it. The present collection of critical essays represents myriad, interesting and insightful explorations on ...