Indian Imagination (ebook)

Argumento de Indian Imagination (ebook)

The anthology comprising twenty two papers is an attempt to study the select representative writers and some canonical works from different perspectives like narrative, stylistic, ecocritical and thematic. The areas chosen are fiction particularly novel, poetry and autobiography. The fiction writers included in it are R.K.Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, V.S.Naipaul, Anita Desai, Ruskin Bond and Saadat Hasan Manto. These synoptic studies are focused with a definite critical lens, for example Lacanian theory is applied to R.K.Narayan's novels and psycho narration is used for the study of Anita Desai's novels. Nine novels are taken up for in-depth evaluation; they are The White Tiger, The Inheritance of Loss, Interpreter of Maladies, A Beach Boy, The Foreigner, The Sun Behind the Cloud" Midnight's Children, The Girmitiya Saga and Azadi . In Autobiography Leila Seth's On Balance which is least explored is taken up for comprehensive assessment. In poetry Aurobindo, Tagore and Sarojini Naidu the Romantic trio with three different focal areas of interest are evaluated separately. Besides them Kamala Das and Agha Shahid Ali are comparatively studied to show how radical they are in their poetry. Two papers are on Jayant Mahapatra-one on Relationship and another on A Rain of Rites and one paper is devoted to the study R. Parthasarthy's Rough Passage. On the whole it gives space to emerging novelists besides revisiting the established writers. And it is hoped that it would prove useful for the students, readers and researchers of Indian English literature.

Dr. C.L. Khatri, a reputed perceptive critic and editor of Cyber Literature and several anthologies of criticism, is a practicing poet writing in Hindi and English. He has two poetry collections in English: Kargil and Ripples in the Lake and one in Hindi Goolar Ka Phool to his credit. He was awarded Michael Madhusdan Academy Award for Kargil in 2000. He is an Executive (East Zone). The Association for English Studies of India and on the Advisory Board of Indian Journal of English Studies. As a prolific writer he has produced more than three dozen papers and twelve books of criticism. His books include Vivekananda: Speeches and writings: A Critical Study, Walter de la Mare: Poetry and Novels: An Evaluation (with Kumar Chandradeep), Indian Novels in English: Sense and Sensibility, World Literature: Critical Responses, Narrative Noodles: Essays on Indian English Novels, Vivekananda: Voice and Vision: A Literary Perspective, Mohan Rakesh's Halfway House: A Critique, Vijay Tendulkar's Silence! The Court in Session: A Critique, Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala: A Critique. Edited Books: Indian Literature in English: Critical Discourses, Indian Writing in English: Voices from the Oblivion, Indian Drama in English (with Kumar Chandradeep), Thunder on Stage: A Study of Girish Karnad's Plays (with Sudhir K. Arora), British Author & Texts, R.K. Narayan: Reflections and Re-evaluation, Indian Novels in English: Recent Criticism, Commonwealth Literature: Colonial Inheritance (with R.B. Singh), Indian English Poetry: A Discovery (with Sudhir K. Arora). Currently he is Associate Professor, Dept. of English, T.P.S. College, Patna.0