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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
The project of translation in India is being addressed variously. Certain issues of importance have come up for consideration in this volume. Some of these relate to gender, interpretation, self-effacement, cultural negotiation, and ideology, while others concern the translation of forms and texts. The problems of preference and bias in curriculum, and the seminal role of publishing houses, reflect two of our important concerns. These aspects receive attention as ...
The short story, which is the oldest and the richest form of literature in India, is at the same time, the most neglected and misunderstood genre of writing, as it has not received the critical attention that it has deserved. Though it is the oldest form, yet technically, it is the latest form of writing; its christening took place in 1933 only. Its flexibility of form and its closeness to the methods of drama and poetry on the one hand, and its employment by a ...
Translation: Issues and Perspectives includes papers by scholars involved in translation studies as well as practicing issues of translation. Some papers discuss the issues from the point of view of different theories of translation, some review actual translations, and others bring out the experience of practicing translators. Papers are contributed by Probal Das Gupta, C. Sivashanmugam, P.P. Giridhar, V.V. Rama Rao, Girish Nath Jha, Shailendra Kumar Singh, ...
It has taken more than half a century for us to realize that the colonial system of education has made us cripples-intellectually, morally, emotionally and spiritually. Even today, we are carrying the burden of the massive colonial structure. Any one can see the colonial structure on the mindset in public and private life. In industry and business, in administration and even in the universities and other educational institutions. Decolonizing process, obviously ...
In this book, Vijay Sheshadri looks at the way Margaret Laurence and Shashi Deshpande indict the phallocentric methods of fe/male objectification and also highlights the manner in which these two novelists present women characters who in various ways defy such methods of male objectification. By comparing writers from different countries, cultures and traditions, the book points that there exists a cross-gender representativeness, providing insights into ...
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 ...