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The Poetry of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo' is the apex of religious and spiritual experiences of the two important philosopher-poets of modern India. It is redolent of the mystical and transcendental poetry of the Gita, the Upanishads and other scriptures. While making a comparative assessment of the two from the viewpoint of its scriptural basis, the present work highlights the need for such a new critical approach for analyzing the ...
The present volume is the third in a series featuring younger Canadian scholars from around the Asia-Pacific region and is the initiative of the Pacific Asia Network of Canadian Studies (PANCS). The papers cover a wide range of subjects: literature, diaspora, multiculturalism, history, international studies, commerce, trade, health, environment and media. The volume reflects the richness and diversity of the relationship between Canada and the Asia-Pacific.
Bharati Mukherjee is one of the leading American writers of Indian origin. The book explores the changes that inflict the soul of a woman as she forcefully liberates herself from the conventional ideologies of the patriarchal, socio-economic, cultural set-up. It also explores the world of the Old and the New, revealing the myriad of variegated experiences that the woman undergoes to transmutate. The intertwining of the philosophies of the East and the West ...
Kamala Das, 1934-2009, Indo-English and Malayalam author.
This study examines the modalities of narrative representation of the Mutiny in the historical novel. The narrative on the rebellion has drawn on the British collective imaginary and has offered a representation of the process of identity construction during the Victorian age, which refers to the hegemonic vision with which the cultural and political establishment has supported, in symbolic terms, the process of expansion and the consolidation of colonialism. The ...
The book is focused on the interface between literature and film. It makes a lively inquiry into the adaptation of masterpiece novels into films. It presents case studies of film versions of three timeless classics from Britain, America and Sri Lanka/Canada, viz., Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence & Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. The book seeks to contribute to the scholarly literature on popular ...
Sally Morgan, a writer of tremendous potential, has to her credit a number of published works, the most significant of which is My Place. She has also established herself as a visual artist whose paintings reverberate and reinforce ideas and themes expressed in the work under study. This work has been a consequential text because the readers have taken cognizance of the responded to the historical implications of Morgan's story and relate spontaneously to her ...
Indian English novel, especially in the pre-Independence period, truly reflects spirit of the times. The novels of the three pioneer writers - Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao - project a faithful image of India in its various facets; Caste divide, Gandhian movement for freedom, social, political and religious life. The present book deals with this theme, in a comparative framework, which has indeed a great socio-political and historical significance.
Indian fiction in English has come of age. In the recent years, Four Indian novelists have won the prestigious Booker Prize. The present volume offers a critical response to the prize-winning Indian novels, viz Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Kiran Desai's The Loss of Inheritance and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. The volume makes a rich contribution to the fast-growing corpus of Indian ...
The present book is a pioneering attempt at evaluating Anita Desai's classic novel in Custody. This work in five chapters studies the bogged characters representing the past world of Urdu culture. It starts with the male/female divide and the purdah that divides the worlds of the characters, and analyses the reasons of the Urdu/Hindi, Muslim/Hindu rift of the post-Partition India. Next, the link between space and movement and the failure of the main character ...