Contents: Preface. 1. Tagore's Fruit Gathering: A work of symbolic exuberances/Amar Nath Prasad. 2. An introduction to Rabindranath Tagore/S.K. Paul. 3. Sri Aurobindo's Eric: a critical appraisal/A.K. Sinha. 4. Optimistic view of death in the novels of Mulk Raj Anand/Shyam Bihari Tiwary. 5. Victim consciousness in the early novels of Mulk Raj Anand/R. Bhagwan Singh. 6. Riding the tiger of deceit: a study of Kalo's character/Jitendra Prasad Singh 'Padma'. 7. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's fictions a new dominion and heat and dust: a study of the impact of post-colonialism/S. Kanakaraj. 8. Dialectics of society and self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's The nature of passion/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 9. Tradition versus modernity: a consideration of Kamala Markandaya's two virgins/S. John Peter Joseph. 10. Dialectics of society and self in the novels of Kamala Markandaya's possession/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 11. The existential vision in the novels of Anita Desai/Anita Singh. 12. The binding vine/S. Prasanna Sree. 13. Plural voices of marginality in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things/Janet Wilson. 14. Linguistic inventiveness in The God of Small Things/D.K. Mandal. 15. An equal music: a Melancholy medley/M. Rosary Royar. 16. Portrayal of a new woman: a study of Manju Kapur's A Married Woman/Askok Kumar. 17. The symphony of darkness and a dark romance: Ghasiram Kotwal and Hayavadana/Neeti M.S. Sadarangani. 18. Mahesh Dattani's Where There's a Will: exorcising the patriarchal code/Mukesh Ranjan Verma. 19. Vignettes of Indian life: an analysis of the selected poems of Nissim Ezekiel/C. Anna Latha Devi. 20. Sangya-Balya: Betrayal: a folk tragedy/S. John Peter Joseph. 21. Emerging from the veil: a study of selected Muslim women's feminist writing from the Indian subcontinent/V.P. Singh. 22. Dalit feminism: a psycho-social analysis of Indian English literature/Anita Ghosh.
"Indian Writing in English: Critical Ruminations Vol. II is the collection of some scholarly papers contributed by different scholars and teachers of English. The papers evaluate critically some poets, novelists and dramatists of Indian writing in English. The last two papers deal with the Muslim women feminist writing and the Dalit feminism of Indian English literature.
Indian writing in English is flourishing by leaps and bounds in every field of literature particularly in the realm of fiction. This book, it is hoped, will surely help in the blooming and blossoming of our Indian writing in English. It will prove to be a great asset to research scholars students and teachers of English." (jacket)
