Another foreigner — an academician this time, takes a long and fairly predictable look at India. Professor Wolf teaches English at New York State University and begins his book with the words ‘ Nothing prepares one for India.’ The book consists of a series of letters to ‘ a dear friend’, in which he sets down his reaction to the sights and scenes, the smells and pollution, the terrible and never ending mass of humanity and his irritation, amusement and wonder at what is happening around, and to him.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Howard Wolf
Dr. Howard Wolf, (b.1936) Professor of American and English Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A., is the co-author (with Roger Porter) of the Voice within: Reading and Writing Autobiography (1973); and the author of Forgive The Father : A Memoir of Changing Generations (1978); Upper Manhattan : A Family Album -- poems (1990); A Version of Home : Letters from the Worlds (1992) and This is India : Recording Reality Itself (1992). Wolf has published more than 175 literary and cultural essays, short stories, poems and social commentaries. He is a distinguished member of the PEN International (American Centre) and has been a fellow of both, the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Centre for the Arts. In 1998, Professor Wolf visited India for the first time where he participated in the American Civilization Course at American Studies Research Centre (ASRC), Hyderabad. He returned in 1990 as an ' American Participant ' under the auspices of the USIS and gave lectures in eight Indian Cities : Chennai, Calicut, Trivandrum, Berhampur, Bhubaneshwar, Calcutta, Hyderabad and Delhi. All of Professor Wolf's books deal, in one way or another , with what he calls " the autobiographical impulses in American Life. " He is interested in the value and use of personal writing and believes that this idiom and genre, which has deep roots in the consonant with democratic ideals of a world-wide nature. Another forthcoming book of Howard Wolf is : Essays on Crisis of Humanism in Contemporary Culture.
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