Generic Manifolds: Indian English Literature Since 1950

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Indian English Literature confirms authoritatively some definitive trends in its rapid development after 1950. It now spreads something on its imaginative process and creative drive the linguistic and narrative inventiveness and innovativeness. The galvanization of indigenous and nativistic cultural heritage through, myths, legends and the symbolization of objects for transpersonalizing the universal validity of human emotions, the cultural paradigms and the historic sense. The entire body corpus of Indian English Literature after 1950 deals with the assimilation of exteriority of human behaviour into the interiority of human psyche that includes the analysis of different human problems and the emerging prospects therein. The twenty two papers included in this anthology clothe and screen a wider range of the works of R.K. Narayan, Manohar Malgonkar, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Ruth, Prawer Jhabvala, Bharati Mukherjee, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Attia Hosain, Khuswant Singh, Salman Rushdie, Chitra Divakaruni and Kiran Desai. Apart from the works of these novelists, this book consists of an article on Jhumpa Lahiri’s art of short story and an interview with contemporary Indian English Poet, Charu Sheel Singh. Since Indian English Literature has now become an alternative/compulsory subject at undergraduate and postgraduate levels of studies along with the first choice of research work in various universities, this book in the present format will certainly be a unique contribution to both the students and scholars alike.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Om Prakash Budholia

Om Prakash Budholia, Assistant Professor in the Department of Postgraduate Studies and Research in English, Govt. K.R.G. College, an autonomous College of Jiwaji University, Gwalior, has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate classes for the last twenty-two years. He holds his Ph.D.degree from Jiwaji University, Gwalior (M.P.) He has participated in many national Seminars and Conferences. He is an Assistant Editor of the scholarly literary journal, Points of View. He is also on the Board of Advisors for an International literary journal, The Quest. Till date, Dr. Budholia has published many research papers and articles on English Literature, Language, Comparative Literature and Indian Writing in English in various scholarly journals and anthologies. His work includes: George Eliot: Art and Vision in Her Novels (1999, B.R. Publishing Corporation, New Delhi).

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Title
Generic Manifolds: Indian English Literature Since 1950
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8184350432
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xvi+266p.
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