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Claiming the Difference: Identity in Literatures and Cultures is an attempt to unfold representations of identity by a body of selected papers which critically engage the postcolonial world and its attendant issues. The authors appreciate and also evaluate the sense of difference as a key to understanding identities emerging through different literary traditions and cultural systems. Since identity in our times is increasingly believed to be a socio-psychological ...
The present study on A.K. Ramanujan the distinguished Indian English poet, is primarily inspired by an awareness of certain unfocussed and unexplored areas of his creativity. It adopts an eastern centric view of his creativity in the English language, while it does not deny creative influences on him of western authorities.
Ramanujan's poetic nature is pre-dominantly non-devotional, critical and yet culturally conscious. His grasp of Indian bhakti poetry appears ...