Karnataka Companion to Indian English Literature

Contents: Introduction. I. Creative writers: 1. A.K. Ramanujan’s contribution to poetry and folklore. 2. Armando Menezes’s poetry and other writings. 3. V.K. Gokak’s writings. 4. Shankar Mokashi-Punekar’s poetry and other things. 5. Raja Rao’s Kanthapura. 6. R.K. Narayan’s The Guide. 7. Manohar Malgonkar’s fiction. 8. Iqbalunnisa Hussain’s Purdah and Polygamy. 9. Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terror. 10. K. Raghavendra Rao’s Writins. 11. Rajashekhar Bhoosnurmath’s Science fiction. 12. Basavaraj Naikar’s Light in the House. 13. Anita Nair’s Satyr of the Subway. 14. Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger. 15. Mallikarjun Patil’s In Shakespeare’s England (Basavaraj Naikar’s criticism of the author’s England’s travelogue). 16. T.P. Kailasam’s English Plays. 17. Girish Karnad’s Taledand. 18. Mahesh Dattani’s Dance like a Man. II. Creative writers in English translation: 19. U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Sanskara. 20. Shantinath Desai’s Omnamo. 21. P. Lankesh’s Absurd Theatre Plays. 22. Chandrashekhar Patil’s Absurd Theatre plays. 23. H.S. Shivaprakash’s Mahachaitra. III. Critics: 24. KRS Iyengar’s Indian Writing in English. 25. M.K. Naik’s History of Indian English Literature 26. CD Narasimiah as critic. 27. LS Sheshagiri Rao as a chronicler. 28. G.S. Amur, C.N. Ramachandran and Rajendra Chenni as critics. 29. K. Krishnamurthy’s contribution to Sanskrit poetics. IV. Schoars, translators and editors; Kananda Literature and PHD studies in English: 30. Scholars, translators and editors. 31. Kannada literature in English. 32. PhD studies in English.

The present book Karnataka Companion to Indian English Literature deals with Karnataka writers contribution to Indian English literature. What is true of Indian writing in English is also true of English writing in Karnataka. Raja Rao and R.K. Narayana are great creative writers from Karnataka.