The book Critical Essays on Post-Colonial Literature attempts to analyze Postcolonial poetry, Caribbean poetry, Indian english poetry, Canadian fiction, Indian english fiction, short-story, and drama. It deals with the question of identity of emigrant writers across the globe. Some of the outstanding Postcolonial writers and Indian english writers like Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott; Booker Laureates, Arundhati Roy, Margaret Atwood, and Yann Martel; Commonwealth Prize winners, Vikram Chandra and Manju Kapur; and a host of Sahitya Akademi Award winners like Nissim Ezekiel, Jayanta Mahapatra, Kamala Das, A.K. Ramanujan, Shiv K. Kumar, Keki N. Daruwalla, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, and Ruskin Bond, have been discussed with insight and precision. Above all, the book brings out the perspectives of Postcolonial studies across the globe.
Chapters 26-29: “Multi-Theoretical Approaches to Five Seminal Twentieth Century Novels Across the World”, “Reconfiguring Partition Narratives in Three Select Indian English Novels”, “Two Centuries of Indian English Poetry: The Making of a Canon” and Shashi Tharoor’s, “An Era of Darkness: A Journey from Colonialism to Postcolonialism” are the new additions to the book along with an updated Bibliography.
This is an advanced researched and useful book for teachers, students, and researchers of our country and abroad.
Bijay Kumar Das (1952- ), Ph.D., D.Litt., is a contributor to The Encyclopaedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (New York). He has authored a number of reference books, which include Twentieth Century Literary Criticism; Critical Essays on Research Methodology, Interdisciplinarity and Indian Literature; Interpreting Poetry and Evaluating Criticism; Perspectives on the Poetry of A.K. Ramanujan; Critical Essays on Post-Colonial Literature; The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra; A Handbook of Translation Studies; Form and Meaning in Mahesh Dattanis Plays; Post-Modern Indian English Literature; Critical Essays on Poetry; A Handbook of Communication Skills and Functional English; Shiv K. Kumar as a Post-Colonial Poet; A Reader’s Guide to Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets; Aspects of Commonwealth Literature; The Horizon of Nissim Ezekiel’s Poetry; Perspectives on Indian English Poetry Criticism; and Modern Indian English Poetry. He has edited five reference books: Revisiting W.B. Yeats’s World and Art; Academic Lives of Fifteen Eminent Teachers of English; New Readings in Indian English Literature; Comparative Literature; Perspective on the Poetry of R. Parthasarathy and Contemporary Indo-English Poetry. He has also co-edited one reference book entitled Studies in Postcolonial Literature and several textbooks, including Nineteenth Century English Poetry. He has successfully guided 27 Ph.D. scholars and was the Chief Editor of The Indian Journal of English Studies for three years (2007-09). He taught at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and Burdwan University, Burdwan (West Bengal) as a Reader in English and Professor of English, respectively.
