Amit Chaudhuri, a young, delightful and brilliant contemporary writer has been acclaimed worldwide for his novels, A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag, Freedom Song and A New World besides his collection of short stories Real Time and an anthology of Indian writing The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature. A winner of coveted and prestigious awards like the first prize in Betty Trask Award, Commonwealth Writers Prize and Encore Award, he is essentially a poet who is well grounded in the best literary traditions of both the East and the West. With his roots deep in Indian culture and literature, he could not be shaken by the west wind of postcoloniality and postmodernity and has been making a serious endeavour to explore in an alternative tradition in Indian writing in English. This first full length study of Amit Chaudhuri’s novels offers a text-based and as well as theory-based comprehensive critical insight into them through various and even contrarious strategies by some of the most celebrated academics and scholars. It is hoped that the present volume would induce love and admiration for the high literary achievements of Amit Chaudhuri and would be the starting point for further studies like this.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anu Shukla
Secretary of World Conference of Contemporary Literature is a gold medallist in M.A. English. She got her D.Phil degree on Saul Bellow from Allahabad University, Allahabad. At present she is senior lecturer in English at CMP College of Allahabad University, Allahabad. She has published a number of research papers on American fiction and Indian novel written in English and has edited a couple of critical anthologies on contemporary literature. Her areas of interests are American fiction, Indian novel written in English and narratology. She is editor of the officials journals of(IASCL Studies in contemporary literature.)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sheobhushan Shukla
Sheobhushan (S.B.) Shukla, is a former Prof. and Head. Department of English, Allahabad University, Allahabad, is presently president of world conferences on contemporary literature and Indian Association for studies in contemporary literature. A former editor of Agra University Journal of English studies and Uttar Pradesh studies in English and former member of the board of editors of the Indian Journals of English Studies, he is now engaged in editing studies in contemporary Literature in editing studies in contemporary literature and the books being published by IASCL. He is a 1989 fellow of School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, Hanover, (USA). He was president of Allahabad University Teachers Association from 1994 to 1997. He has published a number of books and several research papers. His doctoral thesis: Social and Moral Ideas in the Plays of Galsworthy†was published from Salzburg, Austria.
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