Indian English Novel: Text and Context

The Indian English Novel : Text and Context is a critical endeavour to explore comprehensively the origin, growth and maturity of Indian narrative art in the second language situation in both the pre-independent and post-independent periods. The book exposes and examines the quest for the poetics of the novel and the relationship between narrative art and contemporary society in cultural, sociological, mythic and stylistic perspective. It too analysis the theoretical formulations of the Indo-Anglian poeticians and critics in their different critical frameworks. Dr. Gajendra Kumar has ably analysed the colonial impact and the impact of the peculiar Indian environment on the language that the Indian writers have used with such skill and effectiveness. It is hoped that the lovers of Indian writing in English and literary theory will read it with pleasure and profit.