Indian English literature has established its credentials all over the world. Still litterateurs in this stream have to be continuously appraised and evaluated and key issues like the impact of multiculturality and the role assigned to women have to be confronted and analysed threadbare not merely in theory but also through the elucidation of key texts from this perspective. The present volume scrutinizes Kamala Markandaya’s corpus as part of this general critical endeavour.
The volume comprises scholarly studies of Nectar In A sieve, Possession, A Handful of Rice, A silence of Desire and Pleasure City, besides examining in depth Kamala Markandaya’s rural sensibility, the silent saga of suffering chronicled in her novels, her philosophic vision of life, her portrayal of social tensions and her feminist poetics, taking a holistic view of her writings.
An indispensable source of fresh and innovative insight into the making of Markandaya’s craft of fiction. A useful supplement to the existing studies of her novels. An original perspective on life, society, values, gender-issues and related areas for students, teachers, researchers working in the fields of Literary Theory, Fiction Studies, Aesthetics, Culture, Philosophy and the sociology of Literature.
Dr. Manmohan K. Bhatnagar is Professor, Department of English, M.D. University, Rohtak (Haryana), India. A distinguished scholar and a veteran teacher of more than two decades’ standing, he has been Chairman, Department of English, M.D. University, Rohtak and also Chairman, State Inter-University Common Syllabi Committee in English of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and M.D. University, Rohtak.
Having been selected for the prestigious Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, Professor Bhatnagar has been a U.G.C.-empanelled Resource Person and part of the Guest Faculty at a number of U.G.C-sponsored Refresher Courses for College Lecturers. He has also chaired individual sessions at national seminars. He has been a U.G.C. Fellow at Panjab University, Chandigarh and a U.G.C. Research Associate at University of Poona, Poona. Currently, he is engaged in working as Principal Investigator in a Major U.G.C. Project on Indian English Fiction.
Professor Bhatnagar’s publications include, besides a number of research articles in prestigious journals in India and abroad, Political Consciousness in Indian English Writing, Perspectives and The Fiction of Nayantara Sahgal. His areas of interest are : Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Commonwealth and Indian English Literature and Third World Fiction.
