Postmodern Indian English Literature (Paperback-2024)

Postmodernism in Indian English literature refers to the works of literature after 1980. If Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938) marks modernism, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981) and Nissim Ezekiel’s Latter-Day Psalms (1982) mark postmodernism in Indian English literature. In this book, an earnest effort has been made to analyse Postmodern Indian English literature genre-wise—poetry, novel, short story, drama and autobiography. An easily comprehensible critical history of Indian English literature in the postmodern period, it is meant for students, researchers as well as teachers who seek an introduction to it.

Bijay Kumar Das, Ph.D., D.Litt., is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (New York). He has published a number of books and research papers on English Literature, Indian English Literature, Commonwealth Literature, Translation Studies, Subaltern Studies and Literary Criticism. His important books include: Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (revised and enlarged edition 2005), A Handbook of Translation Studies (2005), Critical Essays on Poetry (2003), The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (2001), Critical Essays on Postcolonial Literature (2001), Shiv K. Kumar as a Postcolonial Poet (2001), The Horizon of Nissim Ezekiel’s Poetry (1995) and Aspects of Commonwealth Literature (1995). He has edited three important books: Comparative Literature (1998), Perspective on the Poetry of R. Parthasarathy (1997) and Contemporary Indo-English Poetry (1986). He co-edits a scholarly critical journal, The Critical Endeavour. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Journal of English Studies. He has successfully guided twelve Ph.D. scholars. Formerly, a Reader in English, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, Dr. Das is at present, Professor, Department of English, Burdwan University, West Bengal.