Commonwealth Literature : Colonial Inheritance
Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. The journey from innocence to experience in Indo-Anglian Novels/Binod Mishra. 2. Mythical interpretation if Indo-Canadian Diaspora/Stephen Gill. 3. Cultural anxiety versus spiritualism: a case of Indian and Canadian poetry/Sudhir K. Arora. 4. The Pakistani perception of the partition trauma/Ram Bhagwan Singh. 5. Qazi Nazrul Islam: a poet extraordinary/Samiram Kumar Paul. 6. Yakada Yaka: Carl Mullers faction-fiction/C.L. Khatri. 7. Maldivian poetry in English/Sudhir K. Arora. 8. Chinua Achebe/Lily Tigga. 9. The narrative structure of Amos Tutuolas : The Palm Wine Drinkard/Stuti Prasad. 10. Alex La Guma: the man and the writer/Sitaram Singh. 11. Recreating post-colonial identity in coetzees disgrace/C.L. Khatri. 12. Chinua Achebes a man of the people: a critique/Nagendra Kumar and Smita Jha. 13. Problematizing home and highways in Ama Ata Aidoos Anowa/Alma Jean Billingslea Brown. 14. The beautiful ones are not yet born: a representative voice of Africa/Gajendra Kumar. 15. Narrative technique in gabriel Okaras the voice/Ila Sinha. 16. Shifting balances in Margaret Atwoods: The blind Assasin/A. Vanitha. 17. Life of Pi: a saga of human struggle for survival/C.L. Khatri. 18. The world of cant David freemans creeps a study/K. Blachandran. 19. Judith wright and her world of poetry/Sumit Talukdar. 20. Flights of fancy of a fancy for flights: a reading of Henry Lawsons poems/Binod Mishra. 21. Modernism in Australian Novel/Anisur Rahman. 22. A search for roots: Haley and Naipaul/M.M. Gehlot. Index.
"The book highlights the similarities between the ex colonies of Britain called the Commonwealth. The common experience of colonial exploitation struggle for Independence and post Independence political and administrative corruption bind them together. In the 22 papers both Indian and foreign scholars have surveyed and analysed the cultural and political scenario through the literatures of Africa Canada Australia Trinidad India Pakistan Sri Lanka Bangladesh and Maldives. Perhaps for the first time the lesser known literatures of the Commonwealth have been juxtaposed with the celebrated ones.
The book presents a comprehensive study of the Commonwealth valuable for researchers social scientists and literary enthusiasts." (jacket)
