Indian English Novel In The Nineties

Contributed articles.

The Present Anthology Attempts To Analyse Indepth Indian Novels In English Published During The 1990S. Novelists Studies Include Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Arun Joshi, Gita Mehta, Salman Rushdie Among Others.

This Book Purports To Be A Narrative History Of Recent Indian Fiction In Terms Of Artistic Ends, Materials And Techniques. Fiction Happens To Be The Dominant Forms Of Our Time Ith What Bakhtin Calls Its Dialogic Orientation. Indian English Fiction In Rece

A collection of critical essays on Salman Rushdie's work.

Personal and National Destinies in Independent India is an innovative analysis of the interface between individual lives and national history, between citizen and state in modern India, as reflected in contemporary fiction. It critiques the selected works of a host of distinguished Indian English novelists such as Gurcharan Das, Arun Joshi, Rohinton Mistry, Arundhati Roy, Meher Pestonji, Kiran Desai, Vikas Swarup, David Davidar, Aravind Adiga, Manjula Padmanabhan and Tarun Tejpal. The author offers a new interpretation of twelve major novels with reference to the enormous framework of nearly seventy years of the history and politics, culture and economy of independent India. This is a study of fiction that re-writes the grand Indian narrative from a genuine, subaltern point of view and pays tribute to the heroism of ordinary Indians in times of extraordinary transformation. In these times of conflict and disparity which threaten democratic values, these novelists advocate an inclusive and humane India with a strong moral core instead of aggressive or elitist nationalism. They represent an era of painful introspection, an attempt to keep the soul of the nation alive. This unique project would be of interest to students and scholars of Literature, Political Science and History, especially Post-colonial studies. The vast scope of the time period, geographical expanse, social groups, writers and works covered here makes the work comprehensive and contemporary; very few such works on recent Indian history and fiction exist as of now.

Papers presented at a conference held under the auspices of WASLE and IASCL held at Bhubaneshwar in 2003.

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, b. 1932, Trinidadian writer of Indian origin and Nobel Prize winner.

Contributed articles on the works of Rohinton Mistry, b. 1952, Indian born Canadian author.