Critical Explorations In Indian English Literature
Contents: Preface. 1. Dalit Writings in India-a New Pardigm./T.Sasikanth Reddy. 2. Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich Like Us – An Overview in context of illusions to History, Gegraphy and current science/T.Sasikanth Reddy. 3. Immigrant experiences in Manju Kapur’s Novel Immigrant/Ram Sharma. 4. Theme of Hunger and Degradation in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya/Bhupendra Pratap Singh Chauhan. 5. Glimmering of Hopes: The Binding Vine/Kavita Chauhan. 6. The Youth in Chetan Bhagat’s Three Mistakes in My Life/Smita Ajgaonkar Nayak. 7. A Big Destructive Life: A Study of Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour/Neeta Satish Dhuman. 8. Post-colonial Indian English Literature/Anshu Sharma (Bhardwaj) and Ram Sharma. 9. Significance of the stone in the poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra/Vivekanand Jha. 10. Ruth Prawar Jhabvala’s To Whom She Will: The Feminist Perspective/Shashikant Mishra. 11. The Diasporic Sensibility: The Literature of Indian Diaspora in Mauritius/Onkar Nath Upadhyay. 12. The Survival strategies of the middle class in Girish Karnad’s Wedding Album/B.O. Satyanarayana Reddy. 13. Realism in Gita Mehta’s Raj/Ruchi Banger. 14. Packaging Indianness/Indian Heritage with reference to Bharati Mukherjee’s Fiction/Mukta Sharma. 15. An analysis of Anita Desai’s The Accompanist/Ram Sharma and Anshu Bhardwaj (Sharma). 16. Kenosis. Plerosis and Liminal: Movement and Criss-crossings in Arun Joshi’s The Strange Case of Billy Biswas/J. Samuel Kirubahar. 17. Arun Joshi’s Fictional Forte/Rajeev Kumar Sharma and Anita Sharma. 18. Reportraying coloniality: A Critical Review of Indian Drama/Mustajeeb A. Khan. 19. Quest for self in Kamla Das’s Summer in Calcutta/Ram Sharma. 20. Kumar’s Nude Before God: A Critical Study/Anshu Sharma. 21. R. Parthasarthy’s Rough Passage: A Record of Poet’s Growth of mind/Ram Shama. 22. Cruel side of Humour: Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest/B. Indira. 23. Portrayal of modern sensational journalism in Vijay Tendulkar’s Play Kamala/Ram Sharma. 24. Transgendered as Victim of society in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven steps Around the fire/Ram Sharma.
Indian English literature is related to our country and culture. This is the field we should try to excplore it more. Critical Explorations in Indian English Fiction. This book tries to explore almost all the branches of Indian English Literature. In this anthology there are more than twenty paapers that cover authors like Kamala Markendeya, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande,. Ruth Prawer Jhabwala, Arun Joshi, Gita Mehta, Manju Kapur, Chetan Bhagat, Jayant Mahapatra, Shiv K. Kumar, R. Parathasarathy, Kamala Das, Girish Karnad, Mahesh Dattani and Vijay Tendulkar, etc. these are stalwarts in their respective fields. This anthology tries to cover poetry, fiction and drama respectively.
This anthology will prove useful not only to the students but also to the teachers of English literature and researchers in this field.
