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This insightful collection of essays provides a fresh perspective on Indian writing in English from its nineteenth-century beginnings through its development in the twentieth century. This is perhaps the first attempt to relate Indian English texts to texts in other Indian languages and see this phenomenon as part of a composite cultural mosaic.
First published in 1971, this study of the Indian novel in English has remained a seminal book for the last three decades. This was the earliest work to apply rigorous standards of critical analysis to this new field of study and to situate the novels studied in their historical and social context. Written in an elegant and jargon-free language The Twice Born Fiction laid the foundations for future discourse in this field and anticipated some of the issues ...
The Nation Across the World examines the present state of the nation in a variety of political formations and cultural locations around the world--from smaller but no less complex nations such as Fiji, Singapore, and Trinidad, to larger former colonies such as Australia, India, Sri Lanka and South Africa, to former colonial powers such as Britain and Spain, and the one supernation of our day, the USA. In the process, a wide range of issues are explored, including ...
This volume, a selection of the essays presented at the Thirteenth Triennial Conference of ACLALS held in Hyderabad in 2004, examines some of the defining aspects of Indian Culture and its literary manifestations. The emancipatory appeal of belonging to a nation in this era of globalization, the varied discourses on the history and social dynamics of India and their impact on Indian people, the Diasporic literature of the writers of Indian Diaspora, and the ...
Various strands exist in the tangled texture of our plural existence--language, translation, religion, politics, gender, caste, community, films, migration, and nostalgia for a lost home. Elusive terrain weaves them together in thirteen essays addressing diverse issues relating to literature and culture in modern India. 'Locality of Culture', the first section, examines a few of these strands in the context of the present and looks at literary debates that cut ...