Modern American Literature comprises twenty-two essays which are based on presentations made by IAAS member-delegates mainly at the annual conference at Ludhiana during March, 1999. In the themes and authors selected there is a wide range from twentieth century’s high modernism to post-modernism, voices of African-Americans (theatre), Asian-Americans (theatre and fiction), feminism and the main stream of American theatre. Recent critical concerns too have occupied these scholarly attempts. Keeping in mind that it was the year of Ernest Hemingway’s birth centenary, nine essays have turned to his life and work, the post-war milieu he made his own and the typical Hemingway themes like gender and machismo, love and death, value in the midst of violence, faith and nothingness.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR T.S. Anand
Dr. T.S. Anand is Head, Postgraduate Dept. of English, G.G.N. Khalsa College, Ludhiana (Punjab, India). Besides poetry (The Man and the Masks, short stories in English (The Harmonies) and a collection of poems in Panjabi (Vithan di Paed), and research papers on American and Indian English Fiction, he has published Saul Bellow: The Feminine Mystique, Critical Essays on the American-Jewish Novel and Perspectives on the Afro-American Novel. He is the founder Editor of a bi-annual Journal of English Studies, Literary Voice. His other editorial ventures include New Waves in American Literature, A Mosaic of encounters, Modern American Literature, Modern Indian English fiction and Images of Woman in Fiction. Presently Dr. Anand is editing Humanism in Indian English Fiction. He was the President of the Indian Association for American Studies for the years 2002-2004.
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