Concepts and Contexts of Diasporic Literature of India
Contents: Preface. 1. Traces of life in the works of V.S. Naipaul/C. Gangalakshmi and G. Baskaran. 2. V.S. Naipaul\'s The Mystic Masseur: a critical study/Madhurima Srivastava. 3. From colonial anglophile to decolonised profile: dynamics of V.S. Naipaul\'s vision and voice/Rishi Pal Singh. 4. V.S. Naipaul\'s In a Free State: a conflict between ideality and reality/Satendra Kumar and Balkar Singh. 5. Situating the self: questions of space and identity in Naipaul\'s fictional world/Veena Shukla. 6. Willie from roots to routes: a critical postcolonial perspective of V.S. Naipaul\'s Half a Life/C. Gangalakshmi and G. Baskaran. 7. Gandhi in diaspora writing: the case of V.S. Naipaul/Gauri Shankar Jha. 8. Identity and subjectivity: a psychoanalytic reading of Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh/Prasenjit Das. 9. Sexual myth in Rushdie\'s Shame/Abdulmonim Ali Ben Ali and Lingaraj Gandhi. 10. Jhumpa Lahiri: interpreter of cultural mix and clash/Aju Mukhopadhyay. 11. The theme of dual identity in Jhumpa Lahiri\'s The Namesake/Anisha Rajan. 12. Routing relationships through diaspora: exploring the short fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri/Priyanka Tripathi and H.S. Komalesha. 13. Shifting identities: problems and possibilities--a study of Jhumpa Lahiri\'s fiction/S. Sujatha. 14. Hyphenated identities in Jhumpa Lahiri\'s The Namesake/K. Vani. 15. The changing face of the west and the Indian diaspora: reading Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta and Jhumpa Lahiri/Amit Shankar Saha. 16. The politics of home in the South Pacific: a comparative cultural study/Anand Balwant Patil. 17. Still in search of the nation: a reading of Aravind Adiga\'s The White Tiger/Cielo G. Festino. 18, Perspectives on the Mestiza consciousness: Bharati Mukherjee\'s Desirable Daughters/Eliza Joseph. 19. Amitav Ghosh\'s Sea of Poppies: a subaltern perspective/Elizabeth Lucy. 20. The new garb of the old colonialism in Amita Ghosh\'s In an Antique Land and The Circle of Reason/Khalid Sultan Thabet Abdu and M.H. Rudramuni. 21. Politico-social and cultural consciousness in Kiran Desai\'s The Inheritance of Loss and Aravind Adiga\'s The White Tiger/Krishna Singh. 22. Interview with Shanta Acharya/Nilanshu Agarwal. 23. Kali\'s dance continues towards maturation: a study of Usha\'s poetic vision phase I passing through a Shredder/V.V.B. Rama Rao. 24. Kamala Markandaya\'s Indian women: the principles and the principals--a feministic elucidation/V. Ramesh. 25. Mythical interpretation of Indo-Canadian diaspora/Stephen Gill. 26. Constructing a private dream world: an exploration into the treatment of hybridity and multiculturalism in Kiran Desai\'s The Inheritance of Loss/S. Sujatha.
Concepts and Contexts of Diasporic Literature of India edited by Dr. K.V. Dominic is a critical study on the works of Indian diasporic writers. It is a fact that diasporic writers of India are more popular than the native English writers in India. The relevance of this book lies on that truth. There are twenty four critical articles and an interview in this book. The studies include on great writers like V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Jhumpa Lahiri, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta, Arvind Adiga, Kiran Desai, Shanta Acharya, Kamala Markandaya and Stephen Gill. The contributors consist of writers, professors and scholars. (jacket)
Concepts and Contexts of Diasporic Literature of India edited by Dr. K.V. Dominic is a critical study on the works of Indian diasporic writers. It is a fact that diasporic writers of India are more popular than the native English writers in India. The relevance of this book lies on that truth. There are twenty four critical articles and an interview in this book. The studies include on great writers like V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Jhumpa Lahiri, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta, Arvind Adiga, Kiran Desai, Shanta Acharya, Kamala Markandaya and Stephen Gill. The contributors consist of writers, professors and scholars. (jacket)
