Connecting the Postcolonial: Ngugi and Anand (Hardbound - 2006)

The present book primarily aims at tracing influences central to both Ngugi and Anand, especially of Marx, Gandhi and Fanon in the constructions of their fictional worlds. Also, an attempt has been made here to examine and present a comparative study of language of the fiction which these two great novelists have employed in rendering the chosen fictional world. Besides novels, their non-fictional writings have also been taken into account. The interviews with Ngugi and Anand as well as Anand’s letters have been appended in the book which are sufficient enough to give a glimpse of the amazing concurrence that they display in their approaches to the problems of life and literature. It has been aptly remarked on the contents of the present book:

“… your study shows acute perceptiveness of motive forces behind my novels and Ngugi wa Thiong’o of Kenya...your study will be valuable for the new young students.”

Dr. Lingaraja Gandhi is a Senior Reader in English in the University of Mysore, Mysore. He has to his credit many research articles of national and international repute. Dr. Gandhi is a bilingual writer who writes both in English and in Kannada.

Specialized in Post-Colonial Studies, especially in African Fiction, Dr. Gandhi is one of the staunch advocates of this body of writing, and has used every opportunity to popularize it. Dr. Gandhi has twice been a UGC Visiting Fellow in IKS University, Khairagarh. He has presented papers in conferences held in India and abroad, and has delivered several lectures as a Resource Person on varieties of subject matters in different Institutions and Universities.