Creative Books
64 books
The academic scene today exhibits a huge affinity for cross border studies and for experimenting with inter disciplinary approaches that reveal the complexity of contemporary experiences. The world in which we live gets defined and modified by our interaction with other human beings across boundaries. This is reflected in the literary texts, performances and socio-cultural dialogues that link people and places in interesting ways. This convergence of areas of ...
A study of the Indian diaspora in the South Pacific, the volume takes up the historical linkages of the diaspora and highlights aspects of their existence such as their political and moral resilience over the decades. Focusing on Indians in Fiji, Australia and New Zealand, it shows that they are distinct in their own way and their issues vary. It covers the diverse natures of the diaspora—from the politically charged in Fiji to the placid and predictable ...
Present book is the collection of selected articles, written by the Indian Diaspora community from time to time. Same have been published in electronic form by GOPIO. The articles are a mix of expression as sometimes they deal with urgent problems and at the other they argue upon the existential issues. These articles also don't belong to a certain frame of time. Their inclusion in the present collection is important either because of the depth of pondering or ...
Art and life in India have been inextricably intertwined from the ancient to the contemporary. Art as a way of life, art as ritual, art as decoration and art as unity with Godhead, bore testament to the socio-cultural milieu, the high level of sophistication that developed in ancient India was reflected in the arts by their study in a holistic light. The arts thus strived to home mean intellectual sensibilities, thus raising him level of the transcendental, which ...
The present volume, Indian Feminisms, brings together creative writing – short stories and poems – interviews, critical interventions by creative writers, theoretical formulations, chronicles of women’s history, essays on autobiographies, dalit writing and analyses of socio-political conditions. It reflects the complexity and variety of a woman’s life. There are thematic and theoretical studies and essays which explore histories of language literatures as ...
The end of a century is a mile-stone in the history of a nation and its civilization. The century that has come to an end brought India its independence and hence led to a breaking away from the earlier centre and attempting to find its own identity. The literature of the latter half of the 20 century naturally reflects all these. We chose the last decade because of the interesting variety and number that is seen here.
Modern Indian English fiction essays a probing leap into various facts and factors that attended the shift in focus, in Indian English fiction since independence, from the socio-politico-economic themes to the exploration of the limitless depths of agonised inner selves and various contours of human psyche. The fifteen essays in the volume focus on the primary concerns that inform the works of Indian writers—R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Arun Joshi, Anita Desai, ...
African fiction has generally been read against the backdrop of the great tradition of the English novel. This ignores the strong role that African oratures have played in shaping these bicultural texts. This study attempts to correct this imbalance by unraveling the oral strands in the fiction of Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka and Amos Tutuola. It shows that the three novelists from Nigeria give the lie to the myth of a savage Africa created through Western writing ...
Indian Response to American Literature comprises twenty-two essays presented by member-delegates at XXXIV annual congress of the Indian Association for American Studies held at Annamalai University during December, 2001. These essays selected out of fortysix presentations, attempt to review and evaluate American Literature in the twentieth century and the new millennium, and specially focus upon the trends, tendencies and various strains in the evolution of ...
This book is just an attempt to bring out some issues related to communication studies in general and Urdu electronic and print media in particular. This concise overview may enhance a better understanding of communication studies. This is, therefore, the first linguistic study on Urdu print and electronic media. As such, it should not only open many new perspective in various areas it presents, but also incites others to further this kind of study in both scope ...
Topics in Kashmiri Linguistics include papers related to Hindi Syntax and Semantics. The papers are contributed by Kashi Wali (WH Questioins in Marathi and Kashmiri), Kashi Wali and Ashok K. Koul (Kashmiri Clitics: The Role of Case and CASE), Kashi Wali, Omkar N. Koul (Long shadows of Ergativity in Kashmiri and Marathi), Kashi Wali, Omkar N. Koul and Ashok K. Koul (Multiple Case Marking in Kashmiri Possessive: Traditional and Modern perspective), Kashi Wali, ...
If Canadian Drama of the 60s and the 70s struggled for revealing, legitimizing and universalizing its own specific identity, in the 80s "the alternate theatres and their leaders entered the new main stream". But the 90s saw the economic issues with the greater political and artistic impact, making the Canadian theatre "survive" more than "thrive". However, the partial success of Canadian theatrical nationalism and the boom of the ...
English-Canadian Literary Canon : Emergence and Development is the first study of its kind of India. It seeks to identify and assess the creative/critical literary inputs that have gone into the formulation of Canada’s literary canon in English. It defines literary canon in the light of literary history, comparative evaluation, as also the history of Canada, by focusing on the clearly identifiable stages in the country’s literary development. An attempt has ...
In the present post-modernist age, relations between the ‘centre’ and the ‘periphery’ are being redefined. The works by and on the marginalized elements of our society such as minorities, women and tribals therefore deserve to be studied afresh and in depth. The studies contained in the present volume show that Indian English literature can prove to be a reliable barometer of human response to social forces and their effects. They also prove a helpful ...
Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel The Last Labyrinth, Arun Joshi has not received the attention he deserved. In his short span of life he set a new trend in Indian English Fiction Writing. He focuses more on the human psyche as is done by Anita Desai in India. This volume examines the modern man’s restlessness and confusions, his sense of alienation and uprootedness. His quest for his roots, his identity is at the core of this study of his ...
Here is a collection of seventeen essays on literary issues and texts written by Dr. P.K. Rajan as occasional pieces in the course of his academic career. A large number of authors and texts figure in these studies, which deal with issues in critical practice, make an assessment of certain Indian English writers, and attempt comparative evaluation of writers and works. The authors under scrutiny include T.S. Eliot, Georg Lukacs, George Orwell, Boris Pasternak, ...
Though winner of several awards for his novels, Amitav Ghosh has not received the attention that he so well deserves. This volume attempts to fill this Lacuna in critical appreciation of his novels. He has elicited extreme responses of infinite variety. This book attempts to examine the multiple layers of meaning, the complex narrative technique, the continuous time-space shifts, the motifs and metaphors, history and subversion of history, the personal and the ...