Indian English Literature

The anthology contains perceptive articles on the three major forms of Indian English Literature: poetry, fiction and drama. As usual fiction enjoys a lions share. The writers discussed in this anthology include poets like Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, A K Ramanjuan Nissim Ezekiel; novelists like R K Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand Raja Rao, Kamala Markandaya, Shantha Rama Rau, Nayantara Sahgal, Arun Joshi,k Anita Desai, Shobha de Arunachati Roy, Amit Chaudhuriy short story writers liek Subhadra Sen, Kamala Das, Jhumpa Lahiri and dramatist like Rabindranath Tagore and Mahesh Dattani.
About Author :
Basavaraj Naikar Professor and Chairman, Department of English, Karnatak University Dharwad, India is a bilingual writer in Kannada and English. He has published several reviews and research articles in national and international journals.
Contents :
Preface A contrastive study of the poetry of Aurobindonians and Anti aurobindonians Feeling and Form The Question of Nationalism in a K Ramanujan Poetry Myths of Malgudi R K Narayan my days Tradition and modernity in Kamala Markandays nectar in a sieve The novelist as Historian Coexistence of spiritualism and scientific rationalism in Kamala Markandaya The Indianness of Santha Rama Rau Orientalist learnings in the fiction of arun joshi Arun Joshi The strange case of Billy Biswas Storm in Chandigarh Monisha Plight in voices in the city Who afraid of Shobha de Strategies of voicing the devocided A feminsit Arundhat Roy women as a writer with particular reference to the god of small things etc...