Shiv K. Kumar as a Post-Colonial Poet (Hardbound - 2001)

Shiv K. Kumar as a Post-colonial Poet is an incisive and well researched book. It makes an indepth study of the entire corpus of Shiv K. Kumar’s Poetry from all angles — themes, images, idioms, post-coloniality and technical accomplishments. The concluding chapter lays emphasis on Kumar’s contribution to Post-colonial Indian English poetry. This is an invaluable book on Kumar’s poetry, meant both for the common readers and specialists in the field.

Dr. 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 British Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Literary Criticism, Translation Studies and Comparative Literature. His important books include The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (2001), Critical Essays on Postcolonial Literature (1999), Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (1995, 1996, 1998), The Horizon of Translation Studies (1998), Aspects of Commonwealth Literature (1995), The Horizon of Nissim Ezekiel’s Poetry (1995), Critical Essays on Poetry (1993), Perspectives on Indian English Poetry Criticism (1993), A Reader’s Guide to Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets (1993, 1997, 1999), Modern Indian English Poetry (1992), Critical Perspectives on ‘Relationship’ and Latter-Day Psalms (1986), Modern Indo-English Poetry (1982) and A Study of Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry (1977). He has edited three reference books — Comparative Literature (2000), Perspectives on the Poetry of R. Parthasarathy (1983, 1998) and Contemporary Indo-English Poetry (1986). He has edited and co-edited several textbooks including Poetic Visage (OUP, 1999) and Nineteenth Century English Poetry (OUP, 1992, 1998). He has published scores of research papers on Shakespeare, Keats, Leavis, Yeats, Eliot, Ezekiel, Ramanujan, Jayanata Mahapatra, Kamala Das, Shiv K. Kumar, R. Parthasarathy, Arundhati Roy, Anita Desai, Vikram Chandra, Sashi Deshpande, Derek Walcott, Margaret Atwood, Ted Huges, Seamus Heaney, Derrida, Postcolonial Poetry, Art of Translation, Issues in 20th Century Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature and Postcolonial Theory. He has successfully guided six Ph.D. scholars. At present he is a Reader in English at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack.