Rajeshwar Mittapalli
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A constant concern of Naipaul's novels and travel writing is the negotiation of where the individual is situated. Many of his fictional figures remain unhoused, displaced, uprooted with no distinct place called 'home' to be proud of and are, therefore, located on the margins of fixed and shifting identities. In formal terms, Naipaul experiments along the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction, in particular travel writing, and often fuses genres to give birth to ...
Commonwealth literature continues to retain a separate identity in the twenty-first century, even though some of its creators do not favour the term any longer. Our identity stems from our history. English was a historical accident that gave an overwhelming majority of the commonwealth countries the first opportunity for creative expression. English is now the chief marker of identity for commonwealth fiction, which owes its current high visibility in the ...
Rushdie has put behind him the political and religious controversy that surrounded him in the aftermath of the appearance of The Satanic Verses. These two volumes endeavour to continue the literary-critical study of his works by bringing together some of the best critical essays written in the post-‘verses controversy’ period. The essays present an honest assessment of Rushdie’s works by creatively engaging with the issues each of them raises.
This anthology offers new modes of response in the theory and practice of postcoloniality. While taking stock of the postcolonial theoretical constructs it stresses the need for viable critical models to match the creative spectrum evidenced inn postcolonial societies. It provides a pointer to the various means of the imperial center to falsify, mythicise and control postcolonial studies as the need to develop local/national models of criticism gains in ...
In this volume, an attempt has been made to assess Raja Rao's novels and short stories in terms of his, philosophy, vision, style, themes and techniques. Raja Rao scholars across the globe will find the book irresistible.Raja Rao is one of the triumvirate of the pioneering Indian novelists in English. His contribution to the growth of the English novel in India is enormous. Each one of his novels is a trendsetter. 'Kanthapura', for instance, demonstrates how the ...
As a poet Kamala Das merits a place among the best women poets of the twentieth century. She has made enormous contribution to Indian poetry in English by adding a feminist dimension to it, although she is not inclined to admit it. Perhaps deriving her inspiration from her matrilineal background she celebrates woman’s body and pleads for its integrity in her poems. She writes poetry as only as woman can write and takes pride in the fact of ...
This anthology assembles sixteen essays on different aspects of modern criticism, by some of the best scholars from six countries and four continents. The essays, variously, examine a range of theoretical perspectives, point up key issues in the area of postcolonial literary studies, or open up new interdisciplinary perspectives for the future of criticism. Among the critical schools and approaches expounded by the distinguished contributors are postmodernism, ...
Although Indian women's short fiction has always enjoyed equal importance and popularity as their novels, very little critical attention has been paid to it so far. Indian women's short fiction seeks to fulfill this long felt need. It puts together fifteen perceptive and analytical articles by scholars across the world. The articles, which are focussed on native Indian writing as well as diasporic short fiction, deal with such interesting literary issues ...
Modern American Literature is too vast and varied to be studied between the covers of a single book. Although limited by space, a sincere effort has been made in this anthology to put together deeply perceptive articles on some of the most influential and representative American authors and literary works. Among the writers studied here are Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Toni Morrison, Harold Robbins, Eugene O'Neill and Edward ...