Kamala Markandaya and Arun Joshi : A Comparative Study of Themes in Their Novels

Contents: Preface. 1. Cultural dualism in Kamala Markandaya and Arun Joshis novels. 2. The anguish of alienation: the foreigner and the nowhere man. 3. The danger of deculturation: possession and the strange case of Billy Biswas. 4. The city and the river. 5. Dialectics of tradition and modernity: nectar in a Sieve a handful of rice a silence of desire the apprentice. 6. The cry for cultural coexistence: some inner fury pleasure city the last labyrinth. 7. Conclusion. Bibliography.
 
The book entitled Kamala Markandaya and Arun Joshi: A Comparative Study of Themes in their novels. It deals with the gruesome poverty freedom struggle trauma of partition social changes crisis of identity emerging experience of alienation. The study further involved the multi centralism that intensely and intensively exposed to the western culture. Hence the multi centralism has entrenched into lives of all people who have ever has the misfortunes of being colonized directly or by remote control. A meeting of two cultures can not be the petty phenomenon. It is really a potential challenge for a writer. In fact in this togetherness there is enough of creative tension result may either be explosive or exquisite. The writers like magician and painter try to harmonize the conflicting experience into a meaningful study. (jacket)