Contemporary Indian Writers in English : Critical Observations
Contents: Preface. 2. Indianness in the poetry of Sarojini Naidu/Nibha Singh. 2. The melody of existence: a study of love songs of Sarojini Naidu/Neeraj Kumar. 3. The poetry of Nissim Ezekiel: postcoloniality, identity and humanity/Kalikinkar Pattanayak. 4. Tragic vision in the select poems of A.K. Ramanuja./K. Balachandran. 5. The poetry of A.K. Ramanujan and stylistic devices/Satendra Kumar. 6. Struggle between Indian nationalism and British colonialism in A Ben in the Ganges/Vikas Sharma. 7. Arun Joshi: the novelist/Mallikarjun Patil. 8. Feminist perspective: difficult daughters/Ramnavmiwale Meera. 9. Bharati Mukerjee’s Jasmine: identity in exile/Jaya Srivastava. 10. Bharathi Mukherjee’s wife: a postmodernist novel/Mallikarjun Patil. 11. Arundhati Roy’s The Greater Common Good: a Study/Vinod Kumar Singh and Anjani Kumar Mishra. 12. Cultural assimilation in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed earth/Pramod Kumar Singh. 13. Women in Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss/M.B. Gaijan. 14. The novelist as a social chronicler: a critical analysis of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss/S. John Peter Joseph. 15. The voice of the Subaltern in The White Tiger/Ranjita Barik. 16. Dramatic techniques in the plays of Mahesh Dattani/Amar Nath Prasad. 17. The Tragic Dilemma of Larins Sahib/Basavaraj Naikar. 18. The static perishes, the dynamic perishes not: Basava’s ideology in Fall of Kalyana/Madhavi Nikam. 19. A comparative thematic study of contemporary women writing in India: an overview/K. Sandhya. Index.
Contemporary Indian Writers in English: Critical Observation is an anthology of more than a dozen standard research articles contributed by different scholars. They deal with poetry, fiction and drama of India in English language. All these research articles have dealt with the contemporary writers in a very critical and analytical way. The book it is hoped will certainly be welcomed by the connoisseurs of art and literature, particularly by those research scholars and students who want to familiar with the current issues regarding Indian writes in English.
