Paradigm Shift in Indian English Literature : From Local to Global

Contents: Preface. 1. History as a narrative technique in Bharati Mukherjee\'s The Holder of the World/Savita Bhandari and Surekha Dangwao. 2. Husband wife relationship in Shashi Deshpande\'s A Matter of Time/Arun Verma and Monika Gupta. 3. Eco-consciousness in the novels of contemporary women fiction writers/Neeta. 4. A socio-psychological spectrum of child-life in Mulk Raj Anand\'s shorter fiction: The Lost Child and Other Stories/Lucky Gupta. 5. A study of the evolution of a woman\'s self in R.K. Narayan\'s novels/Yamini Agarwal. 6. Mahesh Dattani\'s Bravely Fought the Queen: deconstruction of the constructed patriarchy/Charu Chitra. 7. Art as a living experience in Anita Nair\'s Mistress/Gunjan Chaturvedi. 8. Psychoanalytical criticisms of the nexus of political and sexual colonialism in Kiran Desai\'s The Inheritance of Loss/Beena Agarwal. 9. Cracking India : a saga of divided legacy and violent belongings/Sunita Sinha. 10. Eastern psyche in western context : a study of the short fiction of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni/Malti Agarwal. 11. Expatriate tradition in The Namesake : Jhumpa Lahiri/Meenu Dubey. 12. Women, confession and creation: a postmodernist tilt in Kamala Das and Sujata Bhatt/Alka Singh. 13. Shobha De\'s Surviving Men : an exploration of male psyche/Shilpi Saxena. 14. Reconstruction of the female image and status of women from quotidian existence to a distinct stature/Archana Bhatnagar. 15. Redefining myth: a study of Namita Gokhale\'s Shakuntala. 16. Crisis of belongingness in V.S. Naipaul\'s Half a Life/Nazneen Khan and Ravi Jauhari. 17. Living strategy in Manju Kapur\'s Difficult Daughters/Nidhi Vats and Mudita Agnihotri. 18. Gender inequality and search for identity across different cultures: a relative study of Shashi Deshpande and Virginia Woolf/Divyabha and Sarika Gupta. 19. Feminism : a subaltern view in Arundhati Roy\'s The God of Small Things/Alka Singh and Farha Fatiuma Naqvi. 20. Sensibility of woman in the time of riots/Vivek Kumar. 21. Vision of the generation of India in the novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya/Gunjan Mittal. 22. Portrayal of women in Nayantara Sahgal\'s selected novels/Gunjan Jain. 23. Challenges of Dalit women\'s writing in the new millennium/Poonam Rani Gupta. 24. Marital disharmony in the novels of Anita Desai : a feminist approach/Rashmi Tomar. 25. Redefining the self : women in the plays of Vijay Tendulkar/Deepa Agarwal. 26. Justifying seismic shift in Indian writing in English with reference to Chetan Bhagat\'s novels/Sangeeta Das. 27. The shadowy side of booming India : Aravind Adiga\'s The White Tiger/Abha Shukla Kaushik. 28. Moving towards emancipation and strength : a reading of Anita Nair\'s Ladies Coupe/Anuradha Gaur. 29. Feminist concern in the short stories of Shashi Deshpande/Pragya Yadav. 30. Cyberfeminism: deconstructing the boundaries of gender/Neeru Tandon. 31. Postcolonial studies in English (some findings from North Indian Universities)/R.P. Singh.

The volume Paradigm Shift in Indian English Literature : From Local to Global Presents a comprehensive range of the dimensions and commitments of the stream of Indian English literature covering a wide range of issues like feminism, nationalism, post-colonialism, postmodernism, gender dynamics, Dalit consciousness and eco-centric approaches to literature. (jacket)