The book presents a collection of research papers on Indian English literature that are wide ranging in nature, dealing with fiction, poetry, drama and critical trends. They cover earlier writers, such as Sri Aurobindo and Bhabani Bhattacharya as well as recent ones such as Shashi Deshpande and Manju Kapoor. There is also a brief survey of Indian English novel since 1980. Areas such as decolonising English in India as well as the impact of American English on ...
The book presents a collection of papers that are wide ranging not only in the choice of authors-two of the Big Trio. R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao on the one hand, the recent ones like Upamanyu Chatterjee and Manju Kapur on the other, but also in the different angles from which these novelists have been discussed. It includes a much talked about author like Arundhati Roy as well as a remarkable but less discussed writer like Ruskin Bond. It consists of feminist ...