Indian Writings In English (Vol. 8)

Indian English Literature in both its matter and manner incorporates continuity with change, an unquestioned commitment to some basic tenets of the traditional blended with a reaching out to explore the new, a shifting of the focus to the individual and the personal but without severing of links with the familial and the societal.
The scholarly studies, specially written for this volume, explore Indian English poets and novelists to arrive at diverse revealing insights, hitherto unexperienced, from this penetrating perspective. The writers taken up for analysis include Kamala Das, A.K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Kamala Markandaya, Manohar Malgonkar, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy and others.
Painstaking perusal of the modern and the mythical in seminal works of Indian English literature, taken up individually and also as part of the writer’s oeuvre.
A critical introduction to Indian English poetry and fiction. A sustained study of recent publications of seminal significance. A source Book for sociologists and critics, teachers and scholars, students and lay readers. An indispensable compendium for further studies in Indian English poetry and fiction.