Indian Fiction In English:roots And Blossoms

Indian Fiction in English: Roots and Blossoms is a modest attempt to evaluate both roots and blossoms, tradition and modernity of Indian Fiction in English. It contains more than twenty scholarly research papers concerning the various aspects of Indain fictions. It covers almost all the great novelists of Indian Writing e.g., Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Bhabani Bhattacharya, R.P. Jhabvala, Manohar Malgonkar, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy and Manju Kapur.
About Author :
Dr. Amar Nath Prasad teaches English at Jagdam College (Jai Prakash University), Chapra (Bihar). He is a well-known editor in the field of Indian Weriting in English. He has to his credit more than a dozen standard books of English literature. Dr. Nagendra Kumar Singh has to his credit a number of scholarly papers published in differents anthologies, journals and newspapers. Recently he has authored a book, Societly and Self in the Novels of R.P. Jhabvala and Kamala Markandaya. He has also co-authored a book on English Grammar and Composition.
Contents :
Indian Novelists in English: An Introduction Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable: A Triumphj of Narrative Skill Fantatic Realism in The Cat and Shakespeare The Language of R.K. Narayan: A Discourse Analysis Gandhian Ideology and Bhabani Bhattacharya Bhawani Bhattacharya's Novels: A Sociological Approach Dialectics of Society and Self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's A Backward Place Distant Drum: Triumph of Duty Kamala Markandaya's The Golden Honeycomb: A Colonial History Dialectics of Society and Self in Kamala Markandaya's Two Virgins Indian Novelists and Anita Desai: A Critical Exploration Indian Woman Sensibility in Shashi Deshpande's 'Instrusion and Other Stories' Facets of Feminism in Shashi Deshpande's The Dark Holds No Terrors Deception and Dualities of Indu in Shashi Deshpande's "Roots and Shadows" Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies: A de tour of Widening Horizons Shashi Deshpande's A Matter of Time: A Study Humanistic Concerns in Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace Style and Technique in Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" Indian English Literature and Crisis in Value System: A Study of 'Difficult Daughters' by Manju Kapur Recent Indian English Novel and Changing Tradition In Pursuit of Excellecne: Treatment of Women in Indo-Anglian Literature Index