Writings Across Genres: Indian Literature, Language and Culture
Contents: Part I : English as a linguistic expression in Indian literature. 1. Understanding what English is and does. 2. Upholding India’s rich cultural heritage through Indian English literature. 3. The new face of Indian fiction in English. 4. Sub-alternity represented: Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq as a dramatic manifestation. 5. Looking at Adiga: the face of the newly emerging Indian intelligentsia. 6. The transcendentalist Tagore: manifestations in Gitanjali. Part II : The Literature of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 7. The poetry of Elizabeth Barrett browning and the question of authorship. 8. The problematics of language in a text: an authorial consternation of the woman writer and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s aurora Leigh. 9. Belonging to the woman writer’s tradition: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Toru Dutt and Sally Morgan. Part III : Reflections on Culture. 10. Talking of self and gender: a Buddhist interpretation. 11. A globalized culture: a humanistic search for a truly cosmic identity. 12. Managing people at cultural crossroads. Part IV : Notions on Organizational Culture and Communication. 13. ‘To Be or Not To Be’: An ethical conundrum in profession. 14. The dialectic of sustainability: envisaging the question of ethics as a business imperative. 15. Corporate social responsibility: the modus operandi towards accomplishing business sustainability. 16. Functionality of the functional categories of communication. 17. The art of interviewing and human resource planning. Bibliography. Index.
The question of ‘de-anglicizing’ English arises as a result of the many debates that have been there going on for some time related to English as a medium of literary and communicative expression. In an era of lively postcolonial debates, other world (excluding British) literatures in English are often debated on. In the midst of such deliberations, how can one afford to be a partisan of the ‘language debate’ any more, when the very notion of ‘language’ is now significantly transcending geographical and cultural considerations?
This book deals with topics as varied as English as a language, Indian literature in English, the literature of a British poet at the same time along with the cultural implications and communicative aspects of the language. It is also an endeavour on the part of the author to deconstruct the very notion that English - as some people would even now like to believe - very specifically belongs to the English-speaking part of the world, and hence is a language that particularly talks of the once-upon-a-time colonizers.
