• ISBN13: 9788126914838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: July 25, 2010
• Pages: 544
• Original Price: INR 1290.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 2000 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): N/A

Literary prizes form a fascinating interface between literature and society. Established in 1968, the Booker Prize has rapidly become one of the most prestigious and glamorous literary prizes in the English speaking world. Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Booker focuses on a particular novel rather than on a particular author. It seeks to confer literary recognition on novels that are winners and attend to the novel as a form and medium for new voices, styles and cultures. The Man Booker Prize expresses a postcolonial response and the prominence of India in its brief history is unquestionable. Besides V.S. Naipaul, the Indian Trinidadian, the prize has been awarded to four Indians—Salman Rushdie in 1981, Arundhati Roy in 1997, Kiran Desai in 2006 and most recently in 2008 to Aravind Adiga. In addition, diasporic Indian authors regularly appear on the shortlist that comes out several months before the prize is actually awarded. Thus, Indian writers have successfully created a niche of their own in English, leaving an indelible mark on the global scene. Rich in scholarship, Indian Booker Prize Winners is a challenging collection of essays, which propels the field of Indian English writing forward and focuses on the emerging role of Indian English fiction in shaping the most significant annual international award in English letters. The book examines the key critical debates which provide a concise analysis of the Booker winning novels from India. A variety of subjects and viewpoints inform the close readings of these seminal novels, thereby making the book particularly useful for the teachers and students of Indian English literature.

Dr. Sunita Sinha, a gold medallist from the Patna University, Bihar, has been teaching English in Women’s College, Samastipur, L.N. Mithila University, Bihar. She has authored two books, Graham Greene: A Study of His Major Novels and Post Colonial Women Writers: New Perspectives. She has edited three anthologies on Postcolonial literature, viz. New Urges in Post Colonial Literature: Widening Horizons, Reconceiving Postcolonialism: Visions and Revisions and Postcolonial Imaginings: Fissions and Fusions. Critical Responses to Kiran Desai and New Perspectives in British Literature Vol. I and II, have been recently published by the Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. New Delhi. Sunita Sinha has participated in many national and international seminars and conferences and has written many scholarly papers which have been published in various national and international journals. Her areas of interest are British, Indian, Australian, Canadian and Postcolonial literature. She is the Assistant Editor of The Atlantic Critical Review and the Honorary Editor/Director for Bihar, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. A Postcolonial Bestiary: Metaphors of Power in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger–Esterino Adami
• 2. Deconstruction in The White Tiger–Jackie Haque
• 3. The Inheritance of Loss: A Portrayal of Myriad Shades of Life–Meenakshi Raman
• 4. Cyclical Temporality in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses–Erin Warde
• 5. National Allegory, Reshaping Memory and Rewriting History: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Shame–John Nkemngong Nkengasong and Magdelene Atanga Mafor
• 6. Subaltern Voices and Postcolonial Anxiety in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things–Diviani Chaudhuri
• 7. From Backward to Forward: Self-upgrading in Contemporary India–Alessandro Monti
• 8. The Subaltern as Hero in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger–Anita Myles
• 9. Dislocation and Identity in The Inheritance of Loss–Nishi Pulugurtha
• 10. Worlds within Words: A Study of Rushdie’s Use of Allusions in the Midnight’s Children–Garima Gupta
• 11. Democracy and Dictatorship in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children–Prakash Chandra Pradhan
• 12. The Unsafe Edge: Ammu’s Agency in The God of Small Things–Christina Bertrand Firebaugh
• 13. The Regional Novel and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger–Arpa Ghosh
• 14. The Subaltern Speaks: A Critical Reading of The White Tiger–Vandana Datta
• 15. Colliding Scapes of Cultures: A Reading of The Inheritance of Loss–Purnendu Chatterjee
• 16. Narrating History, Rethinking Nation: A Re-reading of Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children–Arindam Das
• 17. Possibilities of the Metaphorical in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children–Reena Mitra
• 18. Ecofeminism in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, and the Meenachal River as an Encyclopedia of Race, Class and Culture in the Novel–Joyashri Choudhury
• 19. ‘Re-Vision’
• Creating a New Stream of Novel Writing: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things–Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry
• Contributors–Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger: A Tale of Two Indias–Krishna Singh
• 2. Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger: Harping the Marxist Ideology?–Madhu Shalini
• 3. Passive Acceptance or Active Resistance: ‘Colliding Cultures’ in The Inheritance of Loss–Purnendu Chatterjee
• 4. Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
• A Saga of Epic Dimensions and Resonances–N. Sharada Iyer
• 5. Historiographic Metafiction in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children–Anita Singh and Rahul Chaturvedi
• 6. Indian Masculinity and its Cultural Context: A Study in The God of Small Things–Lata Mishra
• 7. Nation, Natives and Narration in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger–Haris Qadeer
• 8. ‘Unadorned Portrait’ of India by Aravind Adiga–Neeru Tandon
• 9. The Novelist as a Social Chronicler: A Critical Analysis of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss–S. John Peter Joseph
• 10. Metafictional Experimentation in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children–Anju Bala Agrawal
• 11. Narrating the Nation: A Reading of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children–Banibrata Mahanta and Koushik Bhattacharjee
• 12. Portrait of Dalit in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things–Ram Sharma
• 13. Adiga’s The White Tiger: The Twilight of Two Indias–Beena Agarwal
• 14. Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger
• Another Slumdog Millionaire–N. Sharada Iyer
• 15. Chronicle of the Dispossessed
• The Inheritance of Loss–Smriti Singh
• 16. Mapping the Contours of Realities in the Postcolonial India: Perspectives on Kiran Desai’s
• The Inheritance of Loss–Lata Dubey
• 17. A Reading of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger–Gulrez Roshan Rahman
• 18. Nature and its Dialectics of Protest in Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard–Koyel Chakrabarty
• 19. Visions of Reality: Bombay Visions in Midnight’s Children–Joyashri Choudhury
• Contributors