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The Inside View: Native Response to Contemporary, Indian English Novel

by Rangrao Bhongle
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788126902750
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: English Literature
  • Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 176
  • Original Price: INR 350.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 220 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

The present volume includes critical and insightful essays on ‘Native Responses’ to contemporary Indian English Novel. Nativism as an ideology cannot be accepted in toto in the Indian context, as there are several paradoxical and self-contradictory factors operating within the Indian social structure. The Nativist approach to Indian English literature cannot be an effective device to assess the genre. To be carried away by the waves of the Western thought would also be equally ridiculous. Therefore, to understand the not so new phenomenon now, dispassionate and objective criteria has to be evolved. The essays in this volume endeavour to reach out to the Indian English novel with as much objective understanding of the discipline as necessary. The title of the book indicates ‘Native Responses,’ not ‘Nativist,’ because there is no theory involved, or any permanent set of values to be adopted for evaluating Indian English Novel. Nevertheless, the essays included in the volume are meant to clear the web of misunderstanding created by Nativism and Cosmopolitanism together and find a way out to better understanding and appreciation of Contemporary Indian English Novel. It is hoped that the volume will be of immense use to the common reader as well as to the serious critics of Contemporary Indian English Novel.

Dr. Rangrao J. Bhongle is Professor and Head of the Department of English, Mumbai University, Mumbai. Dr. Bhongle is a bilingual creative writer and has published Poetry, Fiction and Criticism in Marathi—his native tongue, as well as in English. He has won awards for his book of criticism (1989) and for collection of poems in Marathi (1993). His collection of poems in English The Moon at the Window (1999) was highly appreciated by the press and by the readers of poetry. Dr. Bhongle’s other books include Revelations: Essays on English Poetry (1995) and Contemporary American Literature (ed.), (2000). Dr. Bhongle currently edits Indian Literary Panorama, a journal dedicated to contemporary Indian literature and society.

  • 1. The Concept of Native Response: A Discourse–S. Kandaswami
  • 2. One Country and Two Colonial Fictional Discourses: A Fanonian Study–Anand Patil
  • 3. The Language of Nativism: The Inherent Hazards of Narrating the Nation–Kirtee Agrawal
  • 4. Rani Dharker’s The Virgin Syndrome: Challenging the Karpu, Escaping the Chakravyuh–Mala Pandurang
  • 5. Shashi Deshpande’s Roots and Shadows as Modern Indian Woman’s Dilemma–K. Suneetha Rani
  • 6. Native Melody in Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song–Indu Kulkarni
  • 7. New Indian English Novel and its New Criteria–Avadhesh Kumar Singh
  • 8. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: A Native Response–Usha Mahadevan
  • 9. The Contemporary Indian English Novel: A Minority Report–R.S. Kimbahune
  • 10. Arundhati Roy: An Inside View–Lakshmi Padmanabhan
  • 11. The Family Trap: A Native Response to Three Indian English Novels–Shakuntala Bharwani
  • 12. The Evils of Cosmopolitanism: A Native Approach to Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines–Rangrao Bhongle
  • 13. The Dialectic of the Inside/the Outside in Rama Mehta’s Inside the Haveli–Rakesh N. Desai
  • 14. Narrating Indian History in Fiction from an Indigenous Perspective: Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel–Meenakshi Sharma

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