Reflection on Indian English Fiction

This book provides an in-depth critical study on Indian English Fiction. This book presents chapters that are wide ranging not only in their choice of authors, Like the two novelists of the big trio, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao on the one hand, and the recent ones like Upamanyu Chatterjee and Manju Kapur on the other. The study discusses the different angles from which these novelists have been discussed. It includes much talked about author like Arundhati Roy as well as a remarkable but less talked about writer like Ruskin Bond also. It consists of feminist study as well as semiotic study and postmodern readings.

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Aesthetics of subjectivity ethics of otherness: the fiction of Shashi Deshpande. 3. East versus west: a reflection of cultural conflicts in Rabindranath Tagore’s the home and the world. 4. Arundhati Roy and Indian fiction in English. 5. From silence to speech: an assessment of Indian English fiction by women. 6. The dynamics of protest in post Independence Indian English women fiction. 7. Desirable or dysfunctional? Family in recent Indian English fiction. 8. Re-drawing the postmodern lines: Rushdie and Indian English fiction in the Post-1980s. 9. Indo-Anglian fiction: writing India, elite aesthetic and the rise of the Stephanian Novel. 10. Identity crisis-Indian English fiction of post 1980s. 11. A note on contemporary Indian fiction in English. 12. The fiction of Subaltern pasts: Shashi Deshpande and Sunetra Gupta. 13. Gender Anxiety and contemporary Indian popular fiction. 14. Women novelists in India writing in English from post-Independence era till today. 15. Woman and family in recent Indian feminist fiction in English. Bibliography. Index.