Contemporary Indian English Literature
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| Author | : Anjum Hasan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 9781636280325 |
This anthology brings together one hundred contemporary Indian poets and fiction writers working in English as well as translating from other Indian languages. Located anywhere from Michigan to Mumbai, the sources of their creativity range from the ancient epics to twentieth-century world literature, with themes suggesting a modernist individuality and sense of displacement as well as an ironic, postmodern embracing of multiple disjunctions. The editors present a historical background to the various Englishes apparent in this collection, while also identifying the shared traditions and contexts that hold together their uniquely diverse selection. In aiming at coherence rather than unity, Hasan and Chattarji reveal that the idea of Indianness is as much a means of exploring difference as finding common ground.
| Author | : Christoph Senft |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2016-01-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004277005 |
This study offers a comprehensive overview of Indian writing in English in the 21st century. Through ten exemplary analyses in which canonical authors stand next to less well-known and diasporic ones Christoph Senft provides deep insights into India’s complex literary world and develops an argumentative framework in which narrative texts are interpreted as transmodern re-readings of history, historicity and memory. Reconciling different postmodern and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the interpretation and construction of literature and history, Senft substitutes traditional, Eurocentric and universalistic views on past and present by decolonial and pluralistic practices. He thus helps to better understand the entanglements of colonial politics and cultural production, not only on the subcontinent.
| Author | : A. Guttman |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2007-10-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230606938 |
This book investigates representations of the nation of India as characterized by unity and diversity in the works of six contemporary novelists, linking their work to important political, historical and theoretical writings.
| Author | : Bruce King |
| Publisher | : OUP India |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2005-02-03 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780195671971 |
This edition is a revision of the classic, which has become the standard work on the subject. Five chapters covering the 1990s have been added with an updated chronlogy. These discuss a number of more recent poets, along with one chapter on the late Agha Shadid Ali.
| Author | : Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru |
| Publisher | : Hotei Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2015-02-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004292608 |
This book starts with a consideration of a 1997 issue of the New Yorker that celebrated fifty years of Indian independence, and goes on to explore the development of a pattern of performance and performativity in contemporary Indian fiction in English (Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Vikram Chandra). Such fiction, which constructs identity through performative acts, is built around a nomadic understanding of the self and implies an evolution of narrative language towards performativity whereby the text itself becomes nomadic. A comparison with theatrical performance (Peter Brook’s Mahabharata and Girish Karnad’s ‘theatre of roots’) serves to support the argument that in both theatre and fiction the concepts of performance and performativity transform classical Indian mythic poetics. In the mythic symbiosis of performance and storytelling in Indian tradition within a cyclical pattern of estrangement from and return to the motherland and/or its traditions, myth becomes a liberating space of consciousness, where rigid categories and boundaries are transcended.
| Author | : Tabish Khair |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 407 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780195679038 |
This book presents readings of contemporary Indian fiction in English, using "discourse" and class divisions in "Babu-Coolie" terms. It includes analyses of writings by such eminent authors as R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh and others.
| Author | : Sajalkumar Bhattacharya |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2019-07-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1527537617 |
This anthology of essays maps the divergent issues that have become relevant in contemporary Indian English poetry and drama. By providing a clear idea about the new themes, techniques and methods used by the Indian English poets and playwrights to address the issues emerging in the changing socio-cultural scenario, particularly during the post-globalization period, the essays offer insightful observations on canon formation and its reception. It is high time to consider afresh whether the canons of Indian English poetry and drama have widened their scope to include innovative forms of writing or whether they have evolved significantly to generate novel perspectives. These questions, which are linked with the issue of canon formation and its reception are intricately woven into the fabric of these essays. This anthology will respond to the scholarly interests of inquisitive students, research scholars and academics in the field of Indian English literature.
| Author | : Prabhat K. Singh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2013-08-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1443852147 |
The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium is a book of sixteen pieces of scholarly critique on recent Indian novels written in the English language; some on specific literary trends in fictional writing and others on individual texts published in the twenty-first century by contemporary Indian novelists such as Amitav Ghosh, Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, K. N. Daruwalla, Upamanyu Chatterjee, David Davidar, Esterine Kire Iralu, Siddharth Chowdhury and Chetan Bhagat. The volume focuses closely on the defining features of the different emerging forms of the Indian English novel, such as narratives of female subjectivity, crime fiction, terror novels, science fiction, campus novels, animal novels, graphic novels, disability texts, LGBT voices, dalit writing, slumdog narratives, eco-narratives, narratives of myth and fantasy, philosophical novels, historical novels, postcolonial and multicultural narratives, and Diaspora novels. A select bibliography of recent Indian English novels from 2001–2013 has been given especially for the convenience of the researchers. The book will be of great interest and benefit to college and university students and teachers of Indian English literature.
| Author | : U. Mukherjee |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2010-01-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230251323 |
Postcolonial Environments examines the relationship between contemporary environmental crises and culture by offering a series of provocative readings of key Indian novels in English, making an original and important contribution to the emerging theories of 'green postcolonialism'.
| Author | : Cecile Sandten |
| Publisher | : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2024-02-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3823395912 |
Contemporary Indian English Literature focuses on the recent history of Indian literature in English since the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children (1981), a watershed moment for Indian writing in English in the global literary landscape. The chapters in this volume consider a wide range of poets, novelists, short fiction writers and dramatists who have notably contributed to the proliferation of Indian literature in English from the late 20th century to the present. The volume provides an introduction to current developments in Indian English literature and explains general ideas, as well as the specific features and styles of selected writers from this wide spectrum. It addresses students working in this field at university level, and includes thorough reading lists and study questions to encourage students to read, reflect on and write about Indian English literature critically.
