For some time, Indian literature in English has received critical attention in Germany. This collection includes responses by German-based academics to contemporary writing from India. The essays give evidence of far-reaching and insightful approaches to the problem of mediating Indian authors to a different, non-Anglophone culture, to specific ways of interpreting contemporary classics by writers like Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh, to gender problems in Indian fiction and to the themes like education and urban life. Altogether, the essays offer both an overview body of writing that has a long heritage in Germany at understaning Indian culture. Students of literature, anthropology, cultural history, and English and German studies will find this book useful and interesting.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bernd-Peter Lange
Bernd-Peter Lange, Professor of Literary and Cultural studies at Magdeburg University, has taught British Studies and European Studies at Free University Berlin, Technical University Braunschweig, Oldenburg University and, as Visiting, Sofia and Wroclav Universties. His publications include books on Dickens, Orwell, genre poetics, Utopian writing, cultural criticism as well as articles on modern British and Irish literature, cultural studies and Indian cultural history. He is a member of the World Council of the Tagore-Einstein Foundation, Santiniketan, West Bengal.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mala Pandurang
Mala Pandurang is Head, Department of English, Dr. BMN College, Mumbai. She has taught at the postgraduate departments of the SNDT Women’s Universities and the University of Miumbai. She is also a Post-doctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humaboldt Foundation, Germany. Her current areas of research interest are diaspora and gender studies. Her publications include Postcolonial African Fiction: A Crisis of Cosciousness (1997), Articulating Gender (Co-ed) (2000), and Vikram Seth: Multiple Locations, Multiple Affiliations (2002). and Mediating Indian Writing in English: German Responses (co-ed.) (Jaipur: 2005 and Berlin: 2006).
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