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The study is a painstaking probe into the unfolding of a hitherto ignored thematic and stylistic dimension of modern Indian English Fiction. Beginning with an in-depth analysis of the political underpinnings in the early phase, the study moves to a scholarly critique of the same in the post-Independence context. Indian English novel has been appraised as a human document, chronicling most credibly the political vicissitudes of the people in general. The ...
Indian English literature has established its credentials all over the world. Still litterateurs in this stream have to be continuously appraised and evaluated and key issues like the impact of multiculturality and the role assigned to women have to be confronted and analysed threadbare not merely in theory but also through the elucidation of key texts from this perspective. The present volume scrutinizes Kamala Markandaya’s corpus as part of this general ...
A.K. Ramanujan represents the quintessential Indian English poet engaged in a relentless quest for self in the welter of tradition and contemporary reality as well as that for a well-adapted poetic idiom. His poetry refracts the essential Indian sensibility fused artistically with the temper of modernity. Ramanujan emerges out of his artistic predicament to a state of creative freedom by means of cultivating a uniquely personal idiom. It is within this thematic ...
R.K. Narayan's career as a novelist and short story writer spans almost eight decades from Swami and Friends (1935) to Grandmother's Tale (1992) until his death on 13 May 2001 at the ripe age of 95. His distinctive sense of humour, his trademark irony, his bemused, 'knowing' 'overseeing' perspective, his rootedness in religion and family values and his inescapable capturing of the essence of Indian sensibility--all have been looked at from a refreshingly new ...