Kim and Midnight’s Children are attempts at the great Indian novel, the novel that aspires to accommodate the whole of Indian reality, and what allows such aspirations is their Englishness. When Saleem Sinai first contacts the children of midnight, he finds that they think in languages he ca...
Besides, the novel proves once again that for sheer vitality, and wide comprehension,, and the feel ing for history and sense of the changing social and economic scene, Anand is without a peer in Indo-English fiction. Another promising writer from Punjab, Chaman Nahal, has already won high...
The Indian English Novel 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书 图书描述 The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. It is often...
M. Williams (1976: 109), "It is undoubtedly the most popular vehicle for the transmission of Indian ideas to the wider English speaking world." We in India, on a greater extent are indebted to the European and English novel because as an art form, it has been imported to India from ...
This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, and Shashi Deshpande, among the best known and most prolific Indian novelists writing in English, who have been self-consciously engaged with...
Anita Desai's intention of writing is to discover herself and then aesthetically portray the truth. She is widely distinguished as the pioneer of psychological novel in modern Indian English Literature.Ms. Suman Singh
“They’re ridiculous. If I were going to write a novel, I should take an old person for a hero–thirty-five or forty.” She looked at Colville, and blushing a little, hastened to add, “I don’t believe that they begin to be interesting much before that time. Such flat things as...
This crises helps karuna in becoming more determined to face the challenges of life. She is an advanced version of Gauri, the female protagonist of Mulk Raj Anand's celebrated novel Gauri. Like Gauri, Karuna decides to re-shape her destiny and life according to her own vision and experience...
Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书 图书描述 This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and 90s. Examining writers such as Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Amitav...
‘I may as well say straight off that many of these adventures were sexual.’ This is the narrator of Ruth Jhabvala’s story ‘An Experience of India’1 beginning her account of her travels through the country ‘in third class railway...