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Rohinton Mistry is a writer of the Indian Diaspora which has come into being for political and economic reasons. Diasporic existence forces a loneliness and a sense of exile on the individual often leading to a severe identity confusion. In his first collection of short stories, Tales from Ferozsha Baag, and his three novels, Such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance and Family Matters, his engagement with the Parsi community, to which he belongs, remains a constant ...
Nissim Ezekiel turned seventy in 1994. This volume of critical essays on Indian literature commemorates this important landmark in the life of one of India’s most significant contemporary poets writing in English today. It was felt that this would be the most appropriate way of marking Ezekiel’s seventieth birthday. As an educator, editor, friend and guide, his has been a major influence on Indian literature in English—from the 1950s till the present date. ...
The concept of world literature was mooted by the German writer and philosopher Goethe in the aftermath of the Napoleonic re-mapping of Europe. He had suggested that world literature could arise from the disruption of cultural continuities through terrible wars engaged upon by combative nations. Considered thus world literature could become the agent through which cultures come to terms with complex constructs of the self and the other. World literature could ...