Indo-English Fiction : New Perspectives
Contents: Preface. 1. Nowhere Man: Sindi in Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner/Arvind M. Nawale. 2. Belonging Nowhere: Uprootal/Exile and identity Crisis in Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay/Kenwar Dinesh Singh. 3. The modern Indian woman’s quest – A Study of Anita Desai’s Select novels/Chandana John. 4. Crisis of Indian secularism: A study of Untouchable, waiting for the mahatma and train to Pakistan/Smita Jha. 5. Alienation in Anita Desai’s cry, the Peacock/K. Suneetha Reddy and P. Madhurima. 6. Observance and violation of cooperative principle in Mulk Raj Anand’s The Lost Child. 7. The Short fiction of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni/L.V. Padmarani Rao. 8. Technique and symbols used in Anita Desai’s journey to Ithaca/V. Sreenathachary. 9. Textual strategy in R.K. Narayan’s The Guide: A discourse of transcendence/Arun Kumar Mukhopadhyay. 10. Emotional and sexual wants in diasporic life as depicted by Jhumpa Lahiri/Amit Saha. 11. Dynamics of reel life and real life in tharoors show business/Amrendra K Sharma and Manju Roy. 12. The notion of nationhood in Khuswant Singh’s train to Pakistan/Shukla Chatterjee. 13. Ek e Sutre-Beaded on a single string: fiction by woman writers in post-Independence Bengal/Sukla Basu. 14. Psycho-Socio-Philosophical Aspects in a Matter of time by Shashi Deshpande/Urmi Satyan. 15. The strangled women in the God of Small Things/Shubha Mukherjee. 16. Unselfing of the self in Aravind Adiga’s the white Tiger/T. Sasikanth Reddy. 17. Transition : A Milestone in Kamala Markandaya’s Fiction/Atmaram Shamrao Gangane. 18. Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide: A Study/T. Jeevan Kumar. 19. Symbol of Fire and its Varied connotations in Anita Desai’s Novel fire on the mountain/D.R. Mane. 20. Assimilation of the personal with the collective revisiting Raj Kamal Jha’s The Blue Bedspread/Kaustav Chakraborty. 21. Politics in difficult daughters and a Married woman: A Comparative study/P. Kannan. 22. Detecting Multicultural voices: Representation of white and third world females in Shashi Tharoor’s Riot/Melisa Maryann Goveas. 23. Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time: A Study in Rasa/Kshipra Purani. 24. Where shall we go this summer: A Critique on Gandhian Views/Jayalaxmi Jadeja. 25. Aesthetics of ethnicity and the sentiments of otherness: The scenario of Indian English Fiction/V.P. Anvar Sadhath. 26. A Glimpse of rapid journey of post-colonial Indian English Literature/Alka Agrawal. 27. Jayanti M. Dalal’s Spatial Echoes: A Review/P.V/ Laxmi Prasad.
Indo-English Writing has earned a good repute in the post-modern literary world. Authors, critics, readers, researchers, students have started taking interest in knowing the world of literature in broader perspectives. The particular field of Indo-English Fiction has witnessed a noticeable readership across the world. It is mostly through their imaginative creations that Indo-English novelists have brilliantly presented the current themes of social, cultural, political, economic and many more issues related to pre and post-independent India. These writings have fostered the readership across the world. The present anthology, Indo-English Fiction: New Perspectives, edited by Dr. A. M. Nawale, provides a fresh perspective on fictional writings of Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Arun Joshi, Shashi Tharoor, Shashi Deshpande, Amitav Ghosh, Raj Kamal Jha, Jhumpa Lahiri, Khuswant Singh, Manju Kapur Arundhati Roy, Aravind Adiga Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jayanti Dalal and so on. It will prove as one more attempt in understanding the Indo-English Fiction through different individual perspectives.
