Indian English Literature (Hardcover-2024)

About the Book: Indian English Literature, a comprehensive anthology, presents perceptive chapters on the major Indian English writers, including novelists, dramatists and poets who have enriched the realm of letters. The thematic concerns of these writers range from the mythical to the mundane, the colonial to the post-colonial, the social to the individual and the psychological to the satirical. Being polyphonic in nature, the book includes incisive analysis of writers such as Ezekiel, Ramanujan, Parthasarathy, Gieve Patel, Kamala Das, Nirad Chaudhuri, Raja Rao, Manohar Malgonkar, Anita Desai, Deshpande, Arun Joshi, Arundhati Roy, Shashi Rohinton Mistry, Bharati Mukherjee and Manju Kapur. It is an ideal resource for 0students and researchers focusing on Indian English literature.

About the Author: Basavaraj Naikar, M.A., Ph.D., D. Litt. (California), is Professor and Chairman, Department of English, Karnatak University, Dharwad. A bilingual critic and prolific author in Kannada and English, he has published several reviews and research articles in national and international journals. His work, The Thief of Nagarahalli and Other Stories, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Fiction Prize for the Best First Book from Eurasia in 2000. A few of his publications include Paradise Lost and Regained: A Modern Prose Translation, Indian Drama in English Translation and The Sonnets of Shakespeare: With Critical Appreciations. His research interests and specialisations include Indian Literature in English Translation, American Literature, Commonwealth Literature, Anglo-Indian Literature, Religious Literature as well as Translation Theory and Practice.