• ISBN13: 9788126930081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: May 20, 2019
• Pages: 170
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 320 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

What is Indian Literature? What is Indianness? How are Indian identity and native voices projected in Indian Literary texts? Does Indian literature cross the contours of Indianness? What is the relevance of translated literary texts in English from Indian regional languages in the fast-blowing wind of globalization? Indian Literature: Translated Texts, Indianness and Beyond addresses these key current issues in Indian Literature in English translation. In the ensuing criticism, endeavours are directed to explore the Indian identity and voices in the selected, translated, and literary texts in English. Translations from Indian regional languages to English are practical avenues to globalize Indian Literature. They not only render a fertile base for comparative literature in India but also in multilingual nations. The book provides thoughtful readings on Indian Literature and translated texts in English from Indian regional languages, Indianness and beyond to UG, PG students, scholars in India and abroad; it expands the terrains of the present study on Indian Literature.

Ratnakar D. Bhelkar, a poet, a short story writer, a prose lyricist, a critic and a translator, is a bilingual who writes in Marathi and English and also translates from these languages. He was born in Kalmeshwar in Nagpur district of Maharashtra, India. At present, he is Associate Professor of English at Dhanwate National College, Nagpur, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur. He is also a visiting faculty at the Dept. of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Thought of the same university. His books, Science Fiction: Fantasy and Reality (Criticism), Dissonance and Resonance (Poetry) are published by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd., New Delhi, and Authors Press respectively. His forthcoming publications in English are Gramgeeta (Translation from Marathi, 9348 lines in verse), Gramgeeta: Tradition and Reality (Criticism), and in Marathi, Gramgeeta: Paranpara ani Vastav (Criticism), Kosh ani Avakash (Poetry). In his academic and creative odyssey, he has visited Thailand, Cambodia, UK and USA.

• Preface
• 1. Towards Understanding Indianness and Beyond
• 2. Philosophy and Cosmic Vision in Vivekananda’s Poetry
• 3. Socio-Economic Perspective in Gramgeeta for Rural Development
• 4. The Philosophical and Political Facets in Interdisciplinary Approach to Gramgeeta
• 5. The Political Reality in Tukadoji’s Gramgeeta in the Indian Context of Self-Governance and Secularism
• 6. Dynamism of Science, Religion, and Cosmic Vision in Gramgeeta: Resonance between Ancient and Present
• 7. Indian Ethos in Arun Kolatkar’s Jejuri and Jayanta Mahapatra’s Poems
• 8. Odyssey from Limit to Beyond in Nagpur Nosegay
• 9. Dissonance and Resonance: Surface and Beneath
• 10. Indian Folk Tradition, Power, Sex, and Violence in Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghashiram Kotwal
• 11. Subalternity in Mahasweta Devi’s Jungle Ke Davedar in the Parlance of Tribal Uprising
• 12. Sub-Text, Socio-Religious Context, and Metaphysical Dimension in U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara
• 13. From Periphery to Center in Sharankumar Limbale’s The Outcaste and Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan
• Index