Multicultural Literature in India : Critical Perceptions, Vol. II

Contents: Introduction. I. Fiction. 1. Iqbalunnisa Hussain’s Purdah and Polygamy : A Critique of Indian Muslim Society/Ramesh Rathod. 2. Premachand’s Godan: A Social Discourse/Mallikarjun Patil. 3. Encounters and Betrayals: Refiguring the Politics of Contesting Selves in Bhabendra Nath Saikia’s Deuka and Taranga/Krishna Barua. 4. Mallilkarjun Patil: A New Writer of Fiction/B.Y. Naik. 5. From Separation to Reunion: A Study of Gateway to Heaven/Basavaraj Naikar. 6. Pathos in Gulzar’s Stories/Sujata. 7. Feminist Consciousness in Aparna Sen’s Films/S.K. Paul. II. Poetry. 8. Pantheism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Works /Somnath Koley and N.D.R. Chandra. 9. Gitanjali and Tapascharanam: A Comparative Study/Mahendra Singh. 10. Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry: A Journey from ‘Sicillian Olive Groves’ To ‘The Shores of the Ganges’/Uday Shankar Ojha. 11. Pilgrims’ Journey in T.S. Eliot and Nissim Ezekiel/A.J. Sebastian Sdb. 12. Humanism in the Poestry of Nissim Ezekiel/N.D.R. Chandra and Qumar Talat. 13. The Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel: A Fine Fusion of Feeling and Form/Amr Nath Prasad. 14. Feminist Deconstructive Reading of Kamala Das’s An Introduction/M.Mani Meitei. 15. The Vision of Evil in the Shirt of Flame/Basavaraj Naikar. 16. The Poetry of Stephen Gill/Bhaskar Roy Barman. 17. Poetry of Angst: R.S. Tiwary’s Grasping the Eros and K.B. Rai’s Soul Tears/Sailendra Narayan Tripathy. 18. From Pain to Pen: Crisis and Creation in the Poetry of P. Jha/Shiv Kumar Yadav. 19. Recollection, Region and Identity: A Study of the Poetry of Pradip Kumar Patra/Bikram Kumar Mohapatra. III. Drama. 20. Dialogic Ramifications in Karnad’s Bali; The Sacrifice/Anshuman Khanna. 21. Death As Discovery in Dattani’s Where There’s a Will/Jai Shankar Jha. 22. Dynamics Of Spirituality in Kalburgi’s Fall of Kalyana/P. Obula Reddy. 23. Girish Karnad’s The Fire and the Rain: A Tale of Inflated Egoes/G.A. Ghanshyam and Raj Rekha Singh. 24. Human Concerns and Relationships in Rayappa Pattar’s Sangya-Balya: Betrayal/Kh. Kunjo Singh. 25. Carnivalesque Reversal in Habib Tanvir’s Charandas Chor/Anshuman Khanna. 26. Intertextual Interaction between Text, History and Society in Ghasiram Kotwal/Tanseem Ara Khan and G.A. Ghanshyam. 27. Existential Vision in Badal Sircar’s Evam Indrajit/Basavaraj Naikar. Index.

“The anthology is an iluminating critical discourse on Multicultural Literature in India that covers wide range of old and new texts like Tagore’s Gitanjali, Aurobindo’s Sicillian Olive Groves and The Shores of the Ganges, Premchand’s Godan, Iqbalunnisa Hussain’s Purdah and Polygamy, Bhabendra Nath Saikia’s Deuka and Taranga, Gulzar’s Stories, Arpana Sen’s Films, Mallikarjun Patil’s Fiction, Girish Karnad’s Bali and The Fire and the Rain, Mahesh Dattani’s Where There’s a Will, Habib Tanvir’s Charandas Chor, Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghasiram Kotwal, Badal Sircar’s Evam Indrajit Kalburgi’s Fall of Kalyana, Rayappa Pattar’s Sangya-Balya: Betrayal, Kamala Das’s “Introducton,” T.S. Eliot and Nissim Ezekiel’s Poetry, Stephen Gill’s Poetry, Chaurushel Singh’s Tapascharanam, P.K. Patra’s Poetry, R.S. Tiwary’s Grasping the Eros, K.B. Rai’s Soul Tears, Rajendra Singh’s Shirt of flame and so on.

The volume provides a lucid and clear understanding of Multicultural Literatures in India, which are diverse in their themes and styles. Thy are the product of multiethnic, multiracial, multi-religious and multi-linguistic fabrics of India. It speculates on new writers, new narratives and new languages, which tell the tales of the complex cultural ethos and distinct style of Indian Literature that forges a combination of the Eastern and the Western traditions.” (jacket)