Contents: Introduction. 1. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's heat and dust: a post-modernist analysis/Gajendra Kumar. 2. R.P. Jhabvala's to whom she will: an analysis/Diksha Khare. 3. Anand's private life of an Indian prince: an analysis/Deepa Singh. 4. Kanthapura: a study in Gandhian perspective/Priyanka Kumari. 5. Influence of the Bhagavadgita in Arun Joshi's the foreigner/Siddharth Sharma. 6. The crisis of values and its resolution in Arun Joshi's the apprentice/Siddharth Sharma. 7. Amitabh Ghosh's In an Antique Land: a postmodernist's Rendezvous with history/Uday Shankar Ojha. 8. Alienation versus affirmation: the novels of Anita Desai/D.K. Pabby. 9. Entrapments at home and abroad in Anita Desai's Fasting Feasting/T. Ravichandran. 10. The existential predicament: a Linch-pin in Nayantara Sahgal's the Day in shadow/Ramesh Kumar Gupta. 11. Nayantara Sahgal's plans for departure: a discourse upon romance and history/Gajendra Kumar. 12. Transformation and migration in Bharti Mukherjee's the Holder of the world/G.A. Ghanshyam and Usha Iyengar. 13. Looking beyond the screen: a study of Shashi Tharoor's Show Business/Gopa Ranjan Mishra. 14. That long silence: a crusade for life and meaning/Kumari Shail Bala. 15. The erotic scenes in Arundhati Roy's The God of small things/Mithilesh Kumar Pandey. 16. Kiran Desai's Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard as a Satirical novel/Shubha Tiwari. 17. A bend in the Ganges: ideology and conviction/Dinesh Chandra Kumar. 18. H.L.V. Derozio's the Fakeer of Jungheera: a study in the narrative art/Ashok Kumar Bachchan. 19. Nissim Ezekiel: the poet/Mallikarjun Patil. 20. Rejection or dejection in Nissim Ezekiel's poetry/Shreedhar Gautam. 21. The poetry of Shiv K. Kumar/K. Ratna Shiela Mani. 22. The Satirical poetry of T.R. Rajashekharaiah/Basavaraj Naikar. 23. D.C. Chambuial's before the petals unfold: an appraisal/Mahesh Pd. Singh. 24. The quest for self in the poetry of Nissim Ezekiel and Stephen spender/Uday Shankar Ojha. 25. From illusion to self-awareness: a study of Tagore's the Home and the world/Indira Bhatt.
"Indian English Literature: A Post Colonial Response" is an effort to register and record the creative urge and energy of Indian creative mind. The anthology has been designed refreshingly by including more than two dozen papers which are exquisitely interesting and knowledgeable. The book deals with the narrative artists, poets and dramatists of both the colonial and the post colonial era. Most of the papers discuss and discern the concerned contours of the text in theoretical and post colonial framework. Gajendra Kumar and Uday Shankar Ojha aptly selected articles with a wealth of detailed evidence as to how the contemporary Indian writing in English holds immense probability of expansion and diversification in the modern era. Teachers, scholars and students of Indian English literature will also find the book useful because of the authors' masterly handling of some major Indian writers and texts." (jacket)
