Indian English
Novel: Styles & Motives
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FOREWORD
Mr. Dipak Giri’s book covers a wide perspective of Indian English
Fiction written by competent hands, who contributed on the major novelists of
the contemporary scene on diverse issues, mostly political and sociological,
which are now highlights of the syllabi of all Indian universities and
colleges. Fiction deals with contemporary realities from Rajmohan’s
Wife to the latest creations. In between, in the early part of the
twentieth century, before Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan appeared on the scene,
there had been masterful attempts at psychological and mysterious short
fictions, like “The Phantom Hour” and “The Door at Abelard” by Sri Aurobindo,
which are unfortunately little known.
This anthology also contains socio-psychological studies on love
and doom, despair and glory, the woman’s question, the marginalized majority,
the Dalits and the like. It is a comprehensive volume, covering large spaces
and reflecting on the leading novelists of our day, from Salman Rushdie down to
Chetan Bhagat, and even on the classics of the earlier days. The variety in
this co-operative anthology is quite remarkable.
I hope it will benefit both the teachers and the students.
Goutam
Ghosal, D.Litt.
Professor of English,
Visva-Bharati,
Santiniketan,
India
CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
1.
A Feminist Study of Kamala Markanday’s Nectar in
a Sieve -Dr. Shantilal Ghegade
2.
“A Measure Of The Miles They Had Traversed”-
Women, Femininity and Emancipation in The
Collector’s Wife by Mitra Phukan and Sita’s
Curse by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu -Sreetanwi
Chakraborty
3. Decolonizing the Female Protagonists: A Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s Fictions -Mr. Chandramani
3. Decolonizing the Female Protagonists: A Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s Fictions -Mr. Chandramani
4.
Depiction
of Socio-cultural Complexities through the Concepts of “Vedanta”: A study of
Raja Rao’s Select Novels -Shantanu Siuli
5.
The
Quest for Identity in Mariam Karim’s Novel My
Little Boat -Dr Romina Rashid & Tanvir Ahmad
6.
Sashi
Deshpande Is Nothing If Not Sensuous – With special Reference to Roots and Shadows -Keerthana Santhosh
7.
Sense of Self in the Face of the Other: Voicing Indigenous Alterity in
Easterine Kire’s Mari -Lt. Lovji K N
8.
Barrier of ‘silence’ removed: A Reading
of Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence -Anmona Bora
9.
The
Puzzle of Survival: Narrating Victimization in P.Sivakami’s The Taming of Women -Yasmeena Jan
10. An Insight into Modern Mania- A Study of
Social Criticism of Contemporary Indian
Society in Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @
the Call Centre -Asma Zahoor
11. The World of Male Friendship as Portrayed
by Anita Desai in her novel In Custody -Shazia Qadri
12. Satire and Allegory in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel -Anjali Mohan
13. Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger in “The Light on Indian Darkness” -N. Krithika
14. The Theme of
Partition in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s children: Re-visiting India’s Past -Santanu
Panda
15. Metaphor as Narrative: A Study of
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things -Shweta
Verma
16. Epistolary as New Style of Writing and
Constructing Indian Identity through Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger -Achyut Tilavat
17. Rukmini
as Nurturer of Nature in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve -Dr. Prachi Priyanka
18. American Multi-Culturalists as Strange
Bed-fellows in Adversity: A Study of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing -Dr. M. Krishnaraj
19. Understanding Aristotelian theory of the
Mean or Moderation by Analysing Behaviour of Anandian Protagonists -Ragini Kapoor
20. A Study of
Rabindranath Tagore’s Women Characters -Dr. Joydeep Pal
21. Humanism in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Coolie -Saurabh Debnath
22. Woman-Nature Interface: An Ecofeminist Study of Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve -Dipak
Giri
Notes on the Contributors
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
1.
Dr. Shantilal Ghegade is an Assistant Professor & Head,
Department of English, Savitribai College of Arts, Pimpalgoan Pisa, Shrigonda,
Ahmednagar, Maharashtra.
2. Sreetanwi Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor in Amity
Institute of English Studies and Research, Amity University, Kolkata, West
Bengal.
3. Mr. Chandramani is an Assistant
Professor of English, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla,
Odisha.
4.
Mr. Shantanu Siuli is an Assistant Professor, Department of
English, ICFAI University, Kamalghat, Agartala, West Tripura.
5.
Dr Romina Rashid is an Assistant Professor, Department of English,
Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, J&K.
6.
TanvirAhmad is an Assistant Professor, Department of
English, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, J&K.
7.
Keerthana Santhosh is an Assistant Professor, Department of History, St.
Mary's College, Thoothukkudi, Tamil Nadu.
8.
Lt. Lovji K N is an Assistant Professor, Dept. of
English, Vimala College,Thrissur, Kerala.
9.
Anmona Bora is an Associate Professor, J.B. College
(Autonomous), Jorhat, Assam.
10. Yasmeena Jan is
a Research Scholar, Department of English, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University,
Rajouri, J&K.
11. Asma Zahoor is
a Research Scholar, Department of English, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University,
Rajouri, J&K.
12. Shazia Qadri is a Research Scholar, Department of
English, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, J&K.
13. Anjali Mohan is a student of M.A., Department of
English, Pachaiyappa’s College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
14. N. Krithika is a student of M.A., Department of
English, Pachaiyappa’s College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
15. Santanu Panda is
a student of M.A., Department of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University,
Purulia, West Bengal.
16. Shweta Verma is a
Research Scholar, Department of English, University of Lucknow, U.P.
17. Achyut Tilavat is a Visiting Lecturer, Department of
English, S.M.T. Dhamsaniya Commerce College, Rajkot, Gujarat.
18. Dr. Prachi Priyanka is an Assistant Professor, School of
Languages & Culture, Sharda University, Greater Noida (U.P.).
19. Dr. M. Krishnaraj is
a Head and Associate Professor, Department of English, Kandaswami Kandar’s
College, Velur, Namakkal District, Tamilnadu
20. Ragini Kapoor is an M. Phil. Scholar, Department of
Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, Delhi University, New Delhi.
21. Dr. Joydeep Pal is
an Approved Part Time Lecturer, Department of
History, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal
22. Saurabh Debnath is an Assistant Teacher, Pundibari
Ramgopal Lakhotia High School, Cooch Behar, West Bengal. Besides he is an
Academic Counsellor of Netaji Subhash Open University, Cooch Behar College
Study Centre, Cooch Behar, West Bengal.
23. Dipak Giri is an Assistant Teacher, Katamari High
School (H.S.), Cooch Behar, West Bengal and a Ph. D. Research Scholar, Raiganj
University, Raiganj, Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal. Besides he is an Academic
Counsellor, Netaji Subhas Open University, Cooch Behar College Study Centre,
Cooch Behar, West Bengal.