Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial Indian Literature in English: Essays in Honour of Nissim Ezekiel

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Nissim Ezekiel turned seventy in 1994. This volume of critical essays on Indian literature commemorates this important landmark in the life of one of Indiaâ€™s most significant contemporary poets writing in English today. It was felt that this would be the most appropriate way of marking Ezekielâ€™s seventieth birthday. As an educator, editor, friend and guide, his has been a major influence on Indian literature in Englishâ€”from the 1950s till the present date. The majority of the contributors to this volume have either been Ezekielâ€™s students or creative writers who have benefited from his razor-sharp comments on their poetry or fiction. Thus even though the essays in this volume cover a wide gamut of Indian literature in Englishâ€”from thematic overviews, to poetry, to fictionâ€”they are all in the ultimate analysis tributes to Nissim Ezekiel. These tributes map the charting of cultural territory by the postcolonial Indian writers in English. These writers, whether in India or in diaspora, speak with a confident voice which is no longer imitative of the British model or apologetic about writing in English. Their writings remap culture, repossess history, hybridise language, offer resistance to both the colonial past as well as postcolonial dominance, thereby providing a voice to the subaltern.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nilufer E. Bharucha

Nilufer E. Bharucha is a Professor of English at the University of Bombay. Her areas of specialization are Postcolonial Literatures and Theories, the Literature of the Raj and Contemporary British Fiction and Translation. She has also published some short stories besides several academic articles. Bharucha has co-edited Indian English Fiction 1980-1990: An Assessment; Postcolonial Perspectives on the Raj and its Literature and Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial Indian Literature in English. A British Council Scholar at the University of Manchester in 1981-82 and a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at the Queen Mary College, University of London in 1994-95, she has lectured and presented papers at several institutes and universities in Europe. Professor Bharucha has been a Visiting Professor at the Otto-Von-Guericke University, Magdeburg and the University of Cologne in Germany, the University of Barcelona, Spain and the University of Avignon, France, as well as a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Visiting Professor at the University of Siegen, Germany. She is also on the Global Faculty of the Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA.