Indian Writings in English : New Critical Perspectives
Contents: Preface. 1. The mammaries of the welfare state: mapping moral degeneration/R.P. Singh. 2. The white tiger too feels the heat and dust/Saloni Prasad. 3. Kiran Desai\'s the inheritance of loss: a saga of failed Romance/Gulrez Roshan Rahman. 4. The libidinal backdrop of Arundhati Roy\'s the God of small things/Abdullah Salehuddin. 5. Magic realism in Salman Rushdie\'s Midnight\'s children and Amitav Ghosh\'s the circle of reason: a comparative study/Lalitesh Mishra. 6. A critical study of family life in Manju Kapur\'s home/Madhur Kumar. 7. Gender discrimination in Anita Desai\'s fasting feasting/Ajay Kumar. 8. Human rights and creative writings in English from India\'s Northeast: an analysis/Kamala Kanta Bori and Rupam Gogoi. 9. Journey as a metaphor in Tendulkar\'s the cyclist/Jai Shankar Jha. 10. Sarojini Naidu\'s poetry: an evergreen plant of Vedantic fruit and poetic fragrance/Amar Nath Prasad. 11. In search of love: an endless pursuit in the poems of Kamala Das/Suman Sinha. 12. P. Lal\'s contribution to Indian English poetry/Shambhu Lal Verma. 13. An aesthetic and philosophical approach to you and my Haiku/Lata Mishra. 14. The revolt of the Subaltern in Aravind Adiga\'s the white tiger/Gulrez Roshan Rahman. 15. The sea a resort to Kamala Das\'s despair laden heart/Nivedita Mukherjee. 16. The apprentice: a Dilemmatic vision of human life/Anand Atikant. 17. Listening to grasshoppers: a dissection of Democracy in India/Jai Vardhan Kumar. 18. Women protagonist in Attia Hossain\'s sunlight on a broken column/Prachi Sinha. 19. Feminism in Ismat Chugtai\'s Lihaf/P.K. Sinha.
Indian Writing in English : New Critical Perspectives is a humble endeavour to evaluate the great authors of Indian writing in English. The book contains well researched papers dealing with various themes of fiction drama and poetry in Indian English literature such as subalternity feminism identity and culture tradition and modernity diasporic viewpoint corruption and degeneration in public life and society in the Indian context. (jacket)
