INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Book Details

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Author: Rajul Bhargava (ed.)

• Language: English

• Edition: 2023

• ISBN: 9788131613399

• Pages: 280

• Cover: Hardcover

• Release Date: 17-06-2023

About the Book

This compelling volume brings together critical voices that reflect on the evolving landscape of Indian Writing in English in the last decade of the 20th century. Emerging from a pressing need to reassess the socio-political and literary currents shaping contemporary English literature in India, this collection offers fresh insights and scholarly perspectives on a vibrant literary period.

With essays by prominent thinkers and critics such as Jasbir Jain, Namita Gokhale, Viney Kirpal, Shyamala A. Narayan, and many others, the volume explores themes like postmodernist feminism, gendered literary sensibility, ideological narratives, and diasporic experiences. It provides critical analyses of major works including The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, The Glass Palace and The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh, and Harvest by Manjula Padmanabhan, among others.

The book examines how Indian English literature of the 1990s transcended traditional literary canons, becoming a powerful medium for articulating dissent, exploring identity, and revisiting historical and philosophical paradigms. With its wide range of themes and contributors, this anthology is an essential resource for students, researchers, and enthusiasts of Indian English literature and literary criticism.