• ISBN13: 9788126930401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: May 20, 2019
• Pages: 388
• Original Price: INR 1195.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 490 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Commonwealth Literature: A Kaleidoscopic Vision contains critical articles on the well- known writers like Luis-de-Camões, A.D. Hope, A.J.M. Smith, Gabriel Okara, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Nadine Gordimer, Patrick White, Margaret Laurence, Salman Rushdie, J.M. Coetzee, G.V. Desani, Bapsi Sidhwa, Tom Gibson, Taya Zinkin, Norman Partington, Simon Harvester, Anthony Mugo, and Obotunde Ijimere. These articles will be very useful to the students, teachers, and research scholars. This critical anthology offers a detailed thematic analysis and evaluation of the classic texts like the following: The Lusiads, Myth, Literature, and the African World, India: A Million Mutinies Now, Petals of Blood, The River Between, A Grain of Wheat, No Longer at Ease, A Man of the People, Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, My Son’s Story, Voss, The Stone Angel, Midnight’s Children, Disgrace, All About H. Hatterr, The Pakistani Bride, A Soldier of India, Tiger in the North, Flow Red the Ganges, Rishi, The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, Kongi’s Harvest, A Dance of the Forests, and The Lion and the Jewel.

Dr. Basavaraj Naikar, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt. (California), UGC Emeritus Fellow, and former Professor and Chairman, Department of English, Karnatak University, Dharwad, India, is a bilingual writer, writing both in Kannada and English. He has written a number of books in English and Kannada. His one of the books, The Thief of Nagarahalli and Other Stories, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Fiction Prize for the Best First Book from Eurasia for the year 2000. His translations from the Kannada into English include Fall of Kalyana, Sangya Balya: A Tale of Love and Betrayal, The Vacanas of Sarvajna, The Holy Water, and The Frolic Play of the Lord. His critical and research articles in Kannada and English have been published in regional, national, and international journals. He reviews Indian literary works for World Literature Today, Oklahoma, USA, and for many Indian journals regularly. His research interests include Indian English Literature, American Literature, Commonwealth Literature, Anglo-Indian Literature, Shakespeare Studies, Translation Studies, and Comparative Literature. He has a passion for music and philosophy in general.

• Preface
• 1. The Colonial Vision in the Portuguese Epic, The Lusiads
• 2. An Appreciation of Commonwealth Poetry
• 3. Wole Soyinka’s Views on African Myth and Drama
• 4. India: A Million Mutinies Now: A Postmodern Travelogue
• 5. Petals of Blood: An Epic of Anti-Colonialism
• 6. The Conflict between Christianity and Gikuyu Culture in The River Between
• 7. A Grain of Wheat: A Novel of Colonial Encounter
• 8. Compromise with Conscience in No Longer at Ease
• 9. A Man of the People: A Political Satire
• 10. Colonial Conflict in Things Fall Apart
• 11. Religious Conflict in Arrow of God
• 12. Quest for Freedom in My Son’s Story
• 13. Platonic Marriage in Voss
• 14. The Stone Angel: The Story of a Woman with a Will
• 15. Midnight’s Children: A Political Novel
• 16. Crime and Punishment in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
• 17. All About H. Hatterr: A Philosophical Comedy
• 18. Tragedy of a Tribal Girl in The Pakistani Bride
• 19. Colonial Conflict in A Soldier of India
• 20. Bicultural Encounter in Tiger in the North
• 21. Flow Red the Ganges: A Mutiny Novel
• 22. Childhood Experience in Rishi
• 23. The Conflict between Nationalism and Imperialism in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
• 24. Cosmic Concerns in the Plays of Obotunde Ijimere
• 25. Kongi’s Harvest: A Political Satire
• 26. A Dance of the Forests: A Socio-Political Satire
• 27. The Conflict between Tradition and Modernity in The Lion and the Jewel