The Dynamics of Imagery: The Image in Indian English Literature (Hardbound - 1995)

Talking metaphorically or obliquely is generally held to be natural with Indians. Indian writers in English are primarily concerned with reality as experienced in India – that is perhaps their major preoccupation. The author has collected and categorized here different types of similes and metaphors mainly from Indo-English fiction. A brief note on imagery in Indo-English poetry has been added. In the past few years there has been an upsurge of interest in Indo-English writing. However, no full-length study on imagery has yet appeared. For these writers imagery has been an important vehicle of perception.

Qaiser Zoha Alam took his M.A. in English from Ranchi University in 1963. He received his Ph.D. in 1968. Later he also obtained a Post-graduate Diploma in the Teaching of English from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. He is presently working as a University Professor of English (Ranchi University Service). He has taught at the degree level for 27 years and at the Post¬graduate level for 19 years. He has made Linguistics, Language Teaching, Education, Regional Languages and Indian Literature his special fields of study and research.

Alam has been associated with a number of learned bodies. He was nominated a member (representing India) of the International Advisory Committee of the World Linguistic Humour Conference held in the United States in 1987 and was also invited to chair a session. He is a keen and enthusiastic researcher. His papers have appeared in META, Canada, the Journal of Indian Education, the Primary Teacher, NIE Journal, Indian Journal of Applied Linguistic, Language Forum, Creative Forum, Education Quarterly, Indian Literature, University News and the Journal of the School of Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University, all published from New Delhi, Banasthali Patrika, Indian Linguistics, Pune, Research Bulletin, Pune, Eastern Anthropologist, Lucknow, Research Journal of Ranchi University, Research Journal of Philosophy, Ranchi, Triveni, Machilipatnam, School Education, Punjab, Rajasthan Board Journal of Education, ELT Journal, Madras and Struggle, Calcutta.

Alam’s book on linguistic and pedagogic issues appeared in 1983. He writes in Hindi and Urdu also. He received a prestigious award for his Urdu work Sharar-e-Justajoo.