The most striking feature of the book (Culture and Identity, Re-reading Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand) is its fresh take on Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand. Beyond the conventional, canonical critical approaches that usually estimate these authors from social, philosophical perspectives, the book takes recourse to the cultural issues of nation, language `difference', identity politics, class struggle, gender formations, post-colonialism, and postmodernism. This critical anthology tries to trace the hyphenated status - the (r)evolutionary unease - of these writers as revealed in their works. The essays unearth, in the writings of maestros, the cultural tension and negotiations that struggle for recognition of identity.
Dr. Aninda Basu Roy, the former Head, Department of English, Vidyasagar University. He was a Fuibright Scholar (1999) and has participated in several international and national conferences. He has several publications to his credit. He has also been awarded the highest award of the State of Kentucky, USA.
Dr. Arindam Das is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata. He has co-edited: Colonial Spectre and Beyond: Studies in Indian Writings in English. He was awarded Australian Studies by Australia India Council Fellowship in 2010.
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