Critical Essays on Post-Colonial Literature

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The present book is an attempt to analyse some of the outstanding post-colonial writers like Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize winner 1997), Vikram Chandra (Commonwealth Prize winner 1997), Derek Walcott (Nobel Prize winner), Margaret Atwood (Booker Prize winner 2000), Jayanta Mahapatram, Dom Moraes, Nissim Ezekiel, Keki N. Daruwalla, Kamala Das, Shiv K. Kumar, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Ruskin Bond (all Sahitya Akademi Award winners) in the light Post-Colonial Theory. Apart from analysing individual authors, an attempt has also been made to show the trends in Post-Colonial Poetry, Indian English Fiction, Orissan contribution to Post-Colonial Indian English Literature and above all, Post-Colonial English Studies in India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bijay Kumar Das

Dr. Vijay Kumar Das, M.A., Ph.D. is presently engaged in his post-doctoral research. He was with the P.G Department of English, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and Khallikote College, Berhampur. Dr. Das has published a number of research papers and books on English Literature and Indian English Literature. He has made a large number of critical studies of poetry which have been published as books, besides several well researched articles in eminent publications. He has published research papers on a number of famous Western and Indian poets. Dr. Das has contributed to the Encyclopaedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (New York).