Aspects of Contemporary Indian English Writing
Contents: Preface. 1. Contemporary Indian English literatures: an overview/Shrikant Singh. 2. Communalism and formation of nations: Indian English novels and partition/Shaileshwar Sati Prasad. 3. Social criticism in the novels of Aravind Adiga/G. Rai. 4. Patterns of feminist consciousness in the select novels of Namita Gokhale/Akhileshwar Thakur. 5. Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors, Margaret Atwood’s Bodily Harm and Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride: Texts as metaphors of sexual violence and bodily harm/J. Samuel Kirubahar. 6. The God of small things-Velutha, a tragic figure/Madhu Bala Saxena. 7. The unaudible Subaltern in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide/Usha Mahadevan and T.M. Gomati. 8. From out of the Ashes of culture, identity and fate a study of Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife and Jasmine/Gowri Sivaraman. 9. Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine: identity in exile/Jaya Srivastava. 10. Multiculturalism in Khushwant Singh’s train to Pakistan: a socio-literary approach/Ashok G. Chaskar. 11. Voices from the Margin: a critical study of the Fictional Corpus of Shashi Deshpande/Totawad N.R. 12. About Anguish, inheritance and culture: the poems of Agha Shahid Ali/Swarn Prabhat. 13. Quest for roots: Mahapatra’s relationship/R.P. Lokhande. 14. Gender sensitivity in Indian English women poetry/Bhavesh Chandra Pandey. 15. Dramatic techniques in the plays of Mahesh Dattani/Amar Nath Prasad. 16. Girish Karnad and his various performative techniques: an overview/K.K. Vishwakarma. 17. The playwright as a social critic: a critical study of Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session/S. John Peter Joseph. 18. Vijay Tendulkar on the social practice of love marriage/Brahma Dutta Sharma. 19. Asif Currimbhoy’s Goa as a depiction of Goa liberation/Mallikarjun Patil. Index.
Aspects of Contemporary Indian English Writing is a humble attempt to reveal a new facet, a new meaning and a new pattern in works we are mostly familiar with. The book includes all the three major aspects of literature: fiction, poetry and play, each closely knit on the strand of contemporaneity.
