• ISBN13: 9788126906895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 26, 2007
• Pages: 352
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 480 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

New Perspectives on Indian English Writings is a collection of thirty-eight research papers on various fictionists, dramatists and poets of Indian origin. These papers, contributed by scholars and teachers of repute, study in depth the major works of the pioneers as well as emerging Indian authors, writing in English. The writers included in this volume are Kamala Markandaya, Jhumpa Lahiri, Shashi Deshpande, Nayantara Sahgal, Girish Karnad, Manju Kapur, Bharati Mukherjee, R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Gita Mehta, Kamala Das, Nissim Ezekiel, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and many others. The wide range of the authors, covered in this volume, makes it useful for researchers, teachers and postgraduate students, studying in various universities of India.

Malti Agarwal is Reader and Head, Department of English, N.A.S. (P.G.) College, Meerut. She has been teaching postgraduate classes since 1974 and is actively engaged in guiding research. She has presented a good number of research papers in English in various national and international seminars and conferences as well as published in journals of repute. Other books authored by her are: Professional Communication (Vols. I & II), Technical Writing in English and Objective English for Competitions.

• 1. Revolution Through Traditional Poetry
• Maha Nand Sharma
• 2. Modern Indian Poetry in English: A Note
• Shrawan K. Sharma
• 3. Comic Touches in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies: Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond
• Ramesh K. Srivastava
• 4. Generational Differences in Diasporic Writings: Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
• Sunita Agarwal
• 5. Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
• Anju Bhatt
• 6. Manju Kapur’s Nowhere Women
• Sudarshan Sharma
• 7. Manju Kapur’s Astha: A New Woman
• Anuradha Verma
• 8. Roots and Shadows: Shashi Deshpande’s Moral Prescription for a Reformed World of Relationships as the Basis of the Indian Traditional Dream of Vasudaiva Kutumbakam
• Krushna Chandra Mishra
• 9. Mother-Daughter Relationship in the Short Stories of Shashi Deshpande
• Abha Shukla Kaushik
• 10. Promotion of the Patriarchal Cruelty Through Female Agency: A Study of Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors
• Monika Bhatnagar
• 11. Vedic Vision in the Poetry of Krishna Srinivas
• K.A. Agrawal
• 12. Quest for Identity with Shashi Deshpande
• Sangeeta Das
• 13. Gender Bias in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors
• M.L. Garg
• 14. Writing from the Margins: A Study of Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence
• Ram Sharma
• 15. Portrayal of Womanhood in the Post-Colonial Indian English Fiction: A Journey from Self-Effacement to Selfhood
• Malti Agrawal
• 16. Women in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya
• V.K. Singhal
• 17. The Evil Effects of Industrialization in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve
• Sharda Jain
• 18. Treatment of Conjugal Love in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve
• Alka Rani
• 19. From Demand to Denial: The Enigmatic Journey of an Unclaimed Parcel
• Gunjan Chaturvedi and Ranjana Mehrotra
• 20. Voice of Protest and Self-assertion in the Poetry of Kamala Das
• Arun Kumar Mishra
• 21. Post-Colonial Argument in the Poetry of Kamala Das
• Shilpi Saxena
• 22. The Agony of Discrimination in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
• Sunanda Mukesh
• 23. Midnight’s Children in the Light of Vakrokti
• Ajai Sharma
• 24. Narayan’s The Guide in the Light of Rasa Theory
• Kshama Gupta
• 25. Image of Indian Woman in the Fictional Works of Bhabani Bhattacharya with a Particular Reference to Music for Mohini
• Gunjan Mittal
• 26. The Condition of Married Woman in Bhabani Bhattacharya’s Music for Mohini
• Manjusha Kaushik
• 27. An Exposition of Poetry in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana: An Application of Kuntaka’s Vakrokti Siddhantha
• Indu Arora
• 28. Gita Mehta’s Karma Cola: A Vituperative Satire on Indian Spirituality
• Hemlatha K.
• 29. Immigrancy as Cause and Effect: The Protagonists of Indira Ganesan’s The Journey and Inheritance
• N. Poovalingam
• 30. Self and Society in Nissim Ezekiel’s Poetry
• Reema Varshney
• 31. Cross-Cultural Dilemma in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters
• Beena Agarwal
• 32. Social Realism in Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner
• B.C. Pandey
• 33. Nana Saheb in Manohar Malgonkar’s Novel The Devil’s Wind
• Vikas Sharma
• 34. The Glimpses of Hindustani Ancient Literature and its Impact on Indian English Literature
• Vinay Kumar Pandey
• 35. Application of Vakrokti in Maha Nand Sharma’s Poetry
• Mamta Sharma
• 36. Indian Woman Torn between Tradition and Modernity as Depicted in the Short Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• Vibha Goyal
• 37. Simrit’s Quest for Identity in Nayantara Sahgal’s The Day in Shadow
• Archana Trivedi
• 38. ‘Give Me a Break’ Leila Seth’s On Balance: A Study of a Woman Who Fights Against Self-Pity
• Malti Sharma
• Contributors