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Vikram Seth in the diaspora series! Many eyebrows are bound to be raised. Seth is one writer whose work poses a challenge to contemporary critical theory and defies an easy classification into conventional categories. The present volume looks at his work in the context of multiple locations and multiple affiliations. He shot to fame with the publication of his verse novel The Golden Gate which was heralded for its European connection and America-centred theme. ...
For some time, Indian literature in English has received critical attention in Germany. This collection includes responses by German-based academics to contemporary writing from India. The essays give evidence of far-reaching and insightful approaches to the problem of mediating Indian authors to a different, non-Anglophone culture, to specific ways of interpreting contemporary classics by writers like Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh, to gender problems in Indian ...
This critical anthology brings together some of the major contemporary revaluations of the entire oeuvre of Chinua Achebe. The contributors, accomplished scholars from across the globe, probe a side range of issues that have profoundly engaged Achebe, including neo-colonial appropriations in post-independence times, alternative paradigms of identity-formation and cultural resistance, affirmative uses of oral linguistic tradition, representation of the feminine ...
"This anthology brings together several major feminist voices of Third World countries and the west. The contributions, notwithstanding their varied thematic preoccupations and cultural locations, are closely focussed on the issues of gender discriminations intertwined with those of race, ethnicity, class, caste and nationality. The perceptions they offer are at once engaging and revealing and significantly contribute to the ongoing key debates in gender ...
This critical anthology of recent essays interrogates Ngugi wa Thiong'o both as a trailblazing creative writer and a pioneering intellectual activist. It problematizes and revaluates several major aspects of Ngugi's craft and concerns including his critique of today's nation states and contribution to postcolonial theorizing, his aesthetics of literature as a weapon against multiple structures of oppression, his commitment to the processes of cultural and ...