Culture and identity : re-reading Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basu Roy, Aninda, author.

Das, Arindam, author.

Biswas, Sarbojit, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Raja Rao--Criticism and interpretation.

Raja Rao.

Anand, Mulk Raj, 1905-2004--Criticism and interpretation.

Anand, Mulk Raj.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jaipur, India : Aadi Publications, 2014.

Summary:

The most striking feature of the book (Culture and Identity, Re-reading Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand) is its fresh take on Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand. Beyond the conventional, canonical critical approaches that usually estimate these authors from social, philosophical perspectives, the book takes recourse to the cultural issues of nation, language `difference', identity politics, class struggle, gender formations, post-colonialism, and postmodernism. This critical anthology tries to trace the hyphenated status - the (r)evolutionary unease - of these writers as revealed in their works. The essays unearth, in the writings of maestros, the cultural tension and negotiations that struggle for recognition of identity.

Contents:

7. Raja Rao's Cultivation of Indianness for the Western Audience: Revisiting The Serpent and the Rope and Kanthapura8. Examining the Structures of Fusion and Encounter? A Study of Anand's Conversations in Bloomsbury; 9. Caught in-between Two Worlds: Ambivalance in Mulk Raj Anand; 10. Mulk Raj Anand's Bakha: A Faliure of Colonial Discourse?; 11. Negotiating between Cultures: A Study of Select Novels of Raja Rao; 12. The Politics of Language, Style and Theme in Raja Rao's Kanthapura; 13. The Revival of an Authentic Identity: Reading the Novels of Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao; Our Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 14, 2016).

ISBN:

93-85484-34-6