Contemporary Literature in English by South Asian Writers

Contents: Preface. 1. Modes of subversion in Arundhati Roy\'s novel the God of small things/Pawan Kumar Sharma. 2. Renegotiating intimacies: some reflections from women\'s selected novels/Anju Jagpal. 3. Projection of myth and history: Amitav Ghosh\'s the circle of reason/Anita Sharma and Chanchal Kumar. 4. Mythical technique in Raja Rao\'s Kanthapura and the serpant and the rope/S.S. Rehal and Krishan Lal. 5. Manju Kapurs difficult daughters a study/Sarabjit Kaur. 6. More than mere Catharsis: The creative voyage of Taslima Nasrin/Rashmi Bajaj and Aparna Batra. 7. Re marking of the archetype: the green world and its hero in Arundhati Roy\'s the God of small things and Anita Desai\'s fire on the mountain/Mridula Sharma. 8. Discourses of resistance in Rohinton mistry\'s such a long journey/Neha Verma. 9. Of liberation of soul and the bondage of body: Shakuntala\'s quest for self in Namita Gokhle\'s Shakuntala/Jyoti Luxmi Kashyap. 10. Documenting the exploitation of bonded sexual enslavement: Douloti the bountiful/Stuti Dinesh Sharma. 11. Rohinton Mistry\'s such a long journey: shadows of alienation and identity problems/Varun Gulati. 12. Articulating history and homelessness: a study of Quarrat ul ain Hyder\'s river of fire/Nutan Garg. 13. A stylistic study of Nissim Ezekiel\'s poem marriage/S.S. Rekal. 14. A study of Bapsi Sidhwa\'s characters with special reference to an American brat/Pooja Singal.

South Asian literature in English is growing and trying to carve a niche for itself in the post modern literary world. It is being read and taught in various universities all round the globe. The contemporary south Asian writers in English generally deal with the themes of disintegration deconstruction cultural studies multiculturalism and most importantly feminism. The present book contains scholarly papers related to some of the major post colonial writers and their themes contributed by teachers and scholars of literature in English. (jacket)