Indian English Literature in both its matter and manner incorporates continuity with change, an unquestioned commitment to some basic tenets of the traditional blended with a reaching out to explore the new, a shifting of the focus to the individual and the personal but without severing of links with the familial and the societal.
The scholarly studies, specially written for this volume, explore Indian English poets and novelists to arrive at diverse revealing insights, hitherto unexperienced, from this penetrating perspective. The writers taken up for analysis include Kamala Das, A.K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Kamala Markandaya, Manohar Malgonkar, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy and others.
Painstaking perusal of the modern and the mythical in seminal works of Indian English literature, taken up individually and also as part of the writer’s oeuvre.
A critical introduction to Indian English poetry and fiction. A sustained study of recent publications of seminal significance. A source Book for sociologists and critics, teachers and scholars, students and lay readers. An indispensable compendium for further studies in Indian English poetry and fiction.
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 Fellow-ship, 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.
Dr. M. Rajeshwar is an Assistant Professor of English at Kakatiya University, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh. His published works of criticism include The Novels of Wole Soyinka (1990) and Indian Women Novelists and Psychoanalysis (1998). The books he has edited are : Post-modernism and English Literature (1999), Lifescapes : Telugu Short Stories by Naveen and Indian Fiction in English. He has been the Associate Editor of the prestigious Kakatiya Journal of English Studies for several years. He has published 26 articles on Indian, African and American fiction in such reputed journals as New Quest, Indian Literature, The Journal of Indian Writing in English, Commonwealth Quarterly, The Commonwealth Review, Revaluations and Triveni. Many of these articles have been repeatedly anthologized.
Dr. Rajeshwar is currently working on a project entitled “The Discovery of Regional Language Fiction : A Study of Ten Major Telugu Novels” as part of a fellowship awarded by the Department of Culture, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, New Delhi.
