Post Colonial Indian English Literature
Contents: Preface. 1. Mini Gandhi’s in Indian Writing/Ram Sharma and Anshu Bhardwaj. 2. Postcolonialism in Taslima Nasreen’s Fiction/Mohammad Umar. 3. Different Shades if life as Depicted by Biplab Majumdar in his poetry volume Golden Horizon/Ram Sharma. 4. Feminism in Shobha De’s Socialite Evenings/Ram Sharma. 5. Dalit Sensibility in Praveen Gadhvi’s Story collection Black Pain/Ram Sharma. 6. Political and moral decadence in Vijay Tendulkar’s play Ghashiram Kotwal/Ram Sharma. 7. Transgendered as Victim of society in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps around the Fire/Ram Sharma. 8. Indian scenes in Keki N Daruwalla’s The Keeper of the Dead/Ram Sharma. 9. Quest for Feminine Identity in Manju Kapur’s Novel Home/Ram Sharma. 10. Alienation in Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock/Ram Sharma. 11. A Married Woman : A Woman’s Quest for a New Identity/Kavita. 12. Representation of Man in the Novels of Manju Kapur/Ram Sharma. 13. Multi cultural factors in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss/T. Sasikanth Reddy. 14. Woman- A Marginalised Sex : Quest for identity/K. Suneetha Reddy. 15. Woman’s Rights and Nation Building : Shyam Selvaduraps Cinnamon Gardens/C.V. Padmaja and B. Indira. 16. A Tribute to a Tragic Past and glimpses of glorious future – Reflections on the works of Virginia Hamilton/K. Suneetha Reddy. 17. A History of Indian English Drama/Ram Sharma. 18. Cry for defenceless and voiceless Dalits in Praveen Gadhvis’s Poetry volume The Voice of the Last/Ram Sharma. 19. Domination of patriarchal authority in Mahesh Dattani’s Where there is a will/Ram Sharma. 20. Aravind Adiga’s the white tiger – Poverty, corruption and caste exposed in Modern India/Kameshwari Ayyagari. 21. Internal Dilemma of Marginal Consciousness: A Study in the Fiction of Farida Karodia, Meher Pestonji and Kavery Nambisan/Mehrunissa Pathan.
This anthology contains scholarly papers contributed by several scholars and teachers of English. This anthology covers Indian English poetry, novels and drama. The writers discussed in this anthology are – Taslima Nasrin, Biplab Majumdar, Shobha De, Praveen Gadhvi, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani, Keki N Daruwalla, Manju Kapur, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Shyam Selvaduraps.
Indian English literature is progressing very well specially in the field of fiction and Indian novelists are claiming world wide recognition and fame. This book will certainly help in assessing the growth of Indian English literature in the present century. It will prove to be a great asset to research scholars, teachers and avid readers of English literature.
