Essays on Indian Writing in English

Contents: 1. Language and style in Manju Kapur’s difficult daughters/Manju Roy. 2. Subaltern Subjectivity and Resistance in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger/Anita Myles. 3. Monika Varma’s Metaphysical Self in across the vast spaces/Satinder Kumar Verma and Surinder Kumar Verma. 4. Quest for Love in the Poetry of Kanwar Dinesh Singh/Sushil Kimar. 5. Religious Motifis in the Poetry of Kamala Das/Purnendu Chatterjee. 6. Man as a Victim of alienation and loss of identity: A Critical Assessment of Chaman Nahal’s The Womb/S. John Peter Joseph. 7. The Novelist as a Social Chronicler: A Critical analysis of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss/S. John Peter Joseph. 8. The Female Gaze: (Re) Presentation of the Male in Modern Indian Women’s Poetry/Kanwar Dinesh Singh. 9. Cultural conflict and acculturation in Raja Rao’s The Serpent and the Rope/Purnima Gupta. 10. The Picture of Corrupt India in Arun Joshi’s The Apprentice/Arvind M. Nawale.

The present book is an anthology of essays exploring different aspects of Indian Writing in English. The writers discussed in these essays include Raja Rao, Monika Varma, Kamala Das, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Chaman Nahal from a comparatively older generation and Mamta Kallia, Eunice de Souza, Manju Kapur, Imtiaz Dharker, Kanwar Dinesh Singh, Milanie Silgardo and Aravind Adiga from the new generation of poets and novelists.

Since several of these writers have been included in the curricula of various colleges and universities, it is hoped that this book will be of great help to the researchers, students, teachers and readers of Indian Writing in English.