Modern Trends in Commonwealth Literature

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. God of Small things: Arundhati Roy’s Depressing Attitude. 3. The English and Literary Quest in the Commonwealth of Nations. 4.  Characteristics of Canadian Literature. 5. The Literature of Australia. 6. The Literature of New Zealand. 7. Avant Garde in Girish Karnad’s Writings. 8. Anita Desai’s Projection of Inner Conflict. 9. Shashi Deshpande’s Woman Sensitivity. 10. Themes in Joyce Cary. 11. The Trauma of Partition of Azadi. 12. The Conflict between Bondage and Liberation in the Home and the World. Bibliography.

Modern trends in commonwealth literature is perhaps the first comprehensive survey of literature of this multicultural grouping of peoples and societies. Besides chapters on individual writers such as Nadine Gardimar, Wilson Harris, R.K. Narayan, Patrick White, Salman Rusdie Henry James, Edith Wharton, James Dickey, Toni Morrison, Chinua Chebe, Wok Soyinka, W.H. Auden, Graham Green, T.S. Eliot, E.F. Forster, Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Premchand, V.S. Naipaul, Mulk Raj Anand, Ved Mehta, Octavio Paz etc. there are chapters on literary development in the countries comprising the Commonwealth. This work makes a significant contribution towards interpreting the Commonwealth, through its vast store house of literature.(jacket)