Post-independence Indian English Fiction
Description:... This Anthology Puts Together Some Of The Finest Articles That Discuss Themes Which Frequently Figure In Current Literary Debates Centring Round Post-Independence Indian English Fiction: Reinterpretation Of Indian History In Artistic Terms, Re-Evaluation Of Indian Culture, Postcolonial Representation Of India In Fiction, Nation And National Identity, Diasporic Indian Experience And Intertextuality. It Thus Attempts A Critical Stock Taking Of The Indian English Fiction Of The Fifty Years Since Independence From These Fresh Perspectives.Almost All The Important Novelists Of The Three Generations Have Been Studied In This Anthology: Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Manohar Malgonkar, Anita Desai, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Arun Joshi, Kamala Markandaya, Shashi Deshpande, Khushwant Singh, Gita Mehta, Vikram Chandra, Mukul Kesavan, Arudhati Roy And Gita Hariharan.Contributing To This Volume Are Some Of The Best Scholars Like Ragini Ramachandra, Antony Johae, Rama Kundu, M. Mani Meitei, D. Maya, Corrado Micheli And Christopher Rollason.
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