Indian English Literature (Hardbound-2020)

About the Book

Gathered in this collection are articles on Chamarasa, Jai Shankar Prasad, Vivekananda, Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, Jayanta Mahapatra, Vijay Tendulkar, R.K. Narayan, Manohar Malgonkar, Kamala Markandaya, Shashi Deshpande, Ruskin Bond, Arun Joshi, Shobha De, Boman Desai, Basavaraj Naikar and Jhumpa Lahiri.
The contributors to this anthology include Basavaraj Naikar, Charu Chandra Mishra, M.A. Nare, K.M. Pandey, R.P. Lokhande, Vibha Mishra, S.I. Nurani, Rudra Prasad Mahto, Rashmi Sahi, Parvati Bhatnagar, Deepa Vanjani, Ashok Kumar Bachchan, Nivedita Maitra, R.S. Pathak, Pashupati Jha, T. Ravichandran, Tejinder Kaur and Bhagabat Nayak.

About the AuthorBasavaraj Naikar (b. 1949) M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt. (California), Professor and Chairman, Department of English, Karnatak University, Dharwad is a bilingual critic and creative writer in Kannada and English. He has published several reviews and research articles in national and international journals. He reviews Indian books for World Literature Today (Oklahoma, USA) regularly. He has translated many works from Kannada into English and vice versa. His specialisations in teaching and research include Indian English Literature, Indian Literature in English Translation, American Literature, Commonwealth Literature, Anglo-Indian Literature, Religious Literature, Translation Theory and Practice. He has a passion for music and philosophy in general. His The Thief of Nagarahalli and Other Stories was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Fiction Prize for the Best First Book from Eurasia in 2000. His second collection of stories, The Rebellious Rani of Belavadi and Other Stories and first historical-political novel, The Sun Behind the Cloud are forthcoming. His Kannada publications include Paduvana Nadina Premavira, Huchchuhole, Jogibhavi (staged, broadcast and telecast), Nigudha Saudha, Govardhanaram, Asangata, Kannada Asangata Natakagalu, Samrachanavada, Beowulf, Gilgamesh Mahakavya, Vatsalya and Bharatiya English Sahitya Charitre. His English publications include Sarvajna : The Omniscient Poet of Karnataka, Critical Articles on Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Musings of Sarvajna, Shakespeare’s Last Plays : A Study in Epic Affirmation, The Folk-Theatre of North Karnataka, Sparrows, Sandalwood, Sangya-Balya, The Fall of Kalyana, Kanakadasa, Indian Response to Shakespeare and Indian English Literature.