Samskara: A Critical Reader is the first volume of its kind to be published on one of the classics of Indian literatures. It includes two foundation essays by anantha Murthy, one on Indian fiction and the other on how he wrote Samskara, offering a historical context to the volume. Other essyas, besides tracing the novel’s rotos to the tradition of realism in Indian fiction, address textual issues such as the representations of colonial modernity, thematic issues such as brahminism and the caste system, cultural issues such as gender and epistemic contestations, probing the depth and complexity of the work from a broad range of contemporary theoretical perspectives. Two essays focusing on the novel’s translation into other languages and adaptation for radio add new dimensions to the interpretation of the novel.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR D. Venkat Rao
D Venkat Rao is a professor at the School of Critical Humanities, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. He did postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley, University of Washington at Seattle, and University of Chicago. He has taught at Kakatiya University, University of Poona and University of Washington. His areas of interest include literary and cultural studies, hypermedia, internet research, image studies, and mnemocultures. He has published articles in research journals in India and abroad.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kailash C. Baral
Kailash C. Baral is Director, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, North-East Campus at Shillong. He is the author of the book Freud’s Theory of Arts and Literature (1994) and has edited two books, Humanities and Pedagogy: Teaching of Humanities Today (2002) and Interpretation of Texts: Text, Meaning and Interpretation (2002). He has also co-edited the book Theory and Praxis: Curriculum, Culture and English Studies (2003), and has published papers on Indian English literature, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial criticism.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sura P. Rath
Sura P Rath is currently a professor of English and Director of the William O. Douglas Honors College at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, USA. He has edited Flannery O’connor: New Perspectives (Uniersity of Georgia Press, 1996; with Mary Ann Shaw), Sitakant Mahapatra: The Mythographer of Time (2001), and Theory and Praxis: Curriculum, Culture and English Studies (Pencraft, 2003; with Kar and Baral). His articles have appeared in journals in India, Europe, and the United States. He is at work on a critical study of V.S. Naipaul.
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