Seeds in Spring: Contemporary Indian English Poetry, Drama and Critics

Indian English Literature unfolds some definitive trends and set in some new directions in the field of poetry, drama and criticism. The attitudinal imitative mode of the nineteenth century has now taken the form of experimentation in both the linguistic innovativeness and the narrativisation of the structural properties. The rapid growth in Indian English poetry has relieved its writings of colonial effects both in manner and method. With the specificity of the linguistic improvisation and the confidentiality of expressive mode, Indian English poetry comes at present to a stage wherein one can read and realize the extension of the national culture and its rituals. Contemporary Indian English poets have developed a model for self expressibility. At the instance of poetry and fiction, the art of contemporary Indian English drama witnesses a slow growth. It is because of the reason that the creative writing of drama requires a specific talent/skill of theatricality. However, the art of contemporary Indian English drama surpasses even the bounds of theatrical skills and the rigid principles of dramaturgy for working out the contemporary issues such as cultural initiation, the psychological states of man and the concept of social change and at the same time their application to the humanitarian notes. The book includes the works of Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, K.N. Daruwalla, Kamal Das, Shiv K. Kumar, Charu Sheel Singh, Arun Kolatkar, A.N. Dwivedi, R.L. Khandelwal and Ravi Nandan Sinha as poets and Asif Currimbhoy, Vijay Tendulkar and Girish Karnad as dramatists. Apart from the works of these poets and dramatists, this anthology also includes two scholarly papers on literary criticism and Dalit Aesthetics Theory. Since Indian English Literature has now become an alternative/compulsory subject at undergraduate and post graduate levels of studies along with the first choice for research work in various universities, this book in the present format will be useful to both students and scholars alike.