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21st century perspectives on Indian writing in English : a time to turn / edited by Debasish Lahiri and Pradipta Mukherjee.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indic literature (English).
- Indic literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
- Indic literature (English)--21st century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]
- Summary:
- The essays gathered here alternately adjust the focal length of the critical lens brought to bear upon texts and contexts in the area of Indian writing in English. They bring into view both intense engagements with major voices in this literary scene and the wider socio-historical perspectives in which they have thrived. Three clearly defined sections on the genres of poetry, prose, and drama are augmented by three incisive interviews with the diasporic Indian English poet Bashabi Fraser, the renowned Indian English fiction writer Kunal Basu, and the premier Indian English playwright Mahesh Dattani. The volume will appeal to students and teachers of postcolonial and comparative literatures. It raises crucial and timely questions about the state of culture in India and the world, the crisis of intolerance, and the loss of memory and diversity. It hones a post-millennial perspective on literature written in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- POETRY
- Modernism via Byculla
- Indian English Poetry
- Recreating Local Geographies
- A Diasporic Pendulum
- FICTION AND ESSAY
- Chiaroscuro in Fiction
- Sans Borders
- Jhumpa Lahiri's Heteroglossia in a Cosmopolitan Perspective
- The Realism of Non-fiction
- Rushdie's Quichotte
- Landscape, Territory, and Survival in Tide Country
- Visual Rhetoric of Untouchability
- DRAMA
- From Calcutta to Kolkata
- Gender and Social Critique in Vijay Tendulkar's His Fifth Woman
- Beyond the Given
- INTERVIEWS
- "All a Poet Can Do Is Warn"
- "Infected by the Unfamiliar"
- "To Create, to Expound, to Study, to Perform, to Witness"
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lahiri, Debasish 21st Century Perspectives on Indian Writing in English
- ISBN:
- 9781527589797
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