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The Indian novel written in English has gained high visibility in the nineteen nineties—a momentous decade which has ushered in a sort of fictional cornucopia. Not only has it brought to light a crop of young writers whose first and even second novels have bagged highly coveted international prizes and awards but it has also sent the popularity of fiction soaring high. Therefore, it is time to evaluate and interpret the major works of the major writers of this ...
Multiple Contexts and Insight makes an attempt, selectively but representatively, to meet the need of critically considering and understanding some of the canonical literature of various countries, viz. South Africa, America, England and the West Indies with special emphasis on Indian writing in English. It underscores contemporary literature and sensibility besides major critical theories of our day, specially postmodernism, postcolonialism and the ...
Amit Chaudhuri, a young, delightful and brilliant contemporary writer has been acclaimed worldwide for his novels, A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag, Freedom Song and A New World besides his collection of short stories Real Time and an anthology of Indian writing The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature. A winner of coveted and prestigious awards like the first prize in Betty Trask Award, Commonwealth Writers Prize and Encore Award, he is ...
Postcolonialism, a major critical discourse in the humanities, especially in literary studies, has been amply interrogated but needs further interrogation in respect of its potentialities and prejudices, privileges and paradoxes. Whereas it paves the way for globalization and postnationalism. It also leads to fierce contestation and controversy. It aims at the generation of non-dominative and non-coercive epistemology but is politicizes the works/texts and gets ...
Postcolonialism, a historio-political phenomenon born in the matrix of literary studies, is a highly problematic term and yet a major force in the academia even today. Decentring the Eurocentric subject it has released new energies and created new paradigms in the contemporary literature and Theory. The present anthology, a fine and judicious mix of the old and established scholars and the new and upcoming ones, endeavors to reify them, not as a prisoner of ...
Migrant Voices in Literatures in English interrogates migrancy in literature and literary discourse especially in narratives and poetics. It endeavours to tease out the tangled yarn of migrancy and dispora and deeply probe various formulation arising from migrant consciousness and creativity, viz, home/land, cosmopolitanism/multiculturalism, borders, quest for identity, ethnicity, language and so on. Quite a few illustrious scholars and critics, from across the ...