• ISBN13: 9788171568239
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: May 6, 1999
• Pages: 192
• Original Price: INR 295.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams
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The contemporary creative literature in English is marked by an irresistible urge to look at its past and the surrounding realities from a changed perspective. The remnants of colonial rule include many a deepening wound which upset the sensitive artist to redefine the relationship between the Empire arid the Centre. In fact, the Post-Colonial Space is the ongoing project of analysing and combatting unequal power, structures. This Volume, comprising sixteen perceptive essays, addresses itself to the multiple intricacies of the Post-Colonial Resistance. This Volume focuses on the diverse strategies of sixteen major Indian writers who have appropriated the Post-Colonial Space to manifest their strong animus against the erstwhile hegemonic power and its assumptions. Divided in Three Sections — General, Author-Based and Text-Based — the essays provide marvellous critiques of some contemporary Indian classics like A Suitable Boy, A Matter of Time, and The Great Indian Novel. The contributors include senior English faculties with proven expertise in the Third World Literature. The volume opens up fresh vistas of critical enquiry and interpretation in respect of contemporary Indian Literature in English.

Surya Nath Pandey (b. 1946), holds a first class first M.A. (English) degree with BHU Medal and a Doctorate from Banaras Hindu University; has been associated with postgraduate teaching and research at Banaras Hindu University for three decades as Lecturer, Reader and Professor since February, 1992; has authored an extensively reviewed book of criticism Stephen Spender: A Study in Poetic Growth published simultaneously from Humanities Press, New Jersey, USA, Salzburg University Press, Austria and Arnold-Heinemann, New Delhi in 1982; edited The Temperate Zone for Prakash Books in 1987; has published Studies in Contemporary Poets, Atlantic, 1998; his Nissim Ezekiel: Dimensions of a Poetic Genius and Cultural Conflict in Three Modern Poets are in the Press; has published more than twenty research articles on major twentieth century writers; has produced nine Ph.D’s in Contemporary Literature and is supervising half a dozen doctoral dissertations at present; has conducted two UGC Research Projects as Principal Investigator : is presently writing a book Myth of the Home Literature of the Indian Diaspora. He is a Senior Professor of English at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

• SECTION A : GENERAL ESSAYS

• 1. The Literature on the Events of 1857 : A Post-Colonial Reading
• R. Veena
• 2. Anticipating Post-Colonialism : The ‘Trio’ in the Thirties
• Michel Pousse

• SECTION B : AUTHOR-BASED ESSAYS

• 3. The Post-Colonial Gesture : Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel
• Niranjan hiMohanty
• 4. Interpreting the Past : Culture and History in Sahgal’s Work
• Jasbir Jain
• 5. R. Parthasarathy’s Poetry : A Trial of Homecoming
• Anirudh P. Trivedi
• 6. Post-scripting Narratives : A Study of Girish Karnad
• Rita Kothari
• 7. Angularities of a Prodigal Son : A Post-Colonial Approach to Dom Moraes’s Poetry
• Surya Nath Pandey
• 8. Post-Colonial Anxiety in the Novels of Arun Joshi
• Usha Bande
• 9. “The Necessary Germ”: Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction and Writing in the Post-Colonial Space
• Paul Sharrad

• SECTION C : TEXT-BASED ESSAYS

• 10. Chronicles of Kedaram as India Rediscovered
• K. Chellappan
• 11. Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq : History in the Future Tense
• N.K. Ghosh
• 12. Layered Experience in Kamala Das’s Poetry : An Epistemological Analysis of Loud Posters
• S.K. Sareen
• 13. Narrating India : Strategies of Narrativisation and Historiography in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel and Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy
• Meenakshi Sharma
• 14. Khushwant Singh’s Delhi : A Post-Colonial Novel
• B.N. Singh
• 15. Claiming Space for Oneself : Politics of Gender and Imperialism in Gita Metha’s Raj
• Amina Amin
• 16. Aesthetics of Absence : Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time
• Satish C. Aikant