New book
Insights into Indian English Fiction and Drama
ISBN 978-81-921254-3-5
ACCESS, New Delhi
English literature is an
established genre in India
with about a 150 years’ history, and recently, along with the global migration
of Indian people as the result of the economic liberalization, we see not only
the domestic writers but also a great many NRI
writers publishing their work in their countries of residence. Their
works are very useful in promoting the interest in and the understanding of
Indian culture by English-speaking people. Indian English literature
originated as a necessary outcome of the introduction of English education in India under
colonial rule. In recent years it has attracted widespread interest, both in India and
abroad. It is now recognized that Indian English literature is not only a part
of Commonwealth literature, but also occupies a great significance in the World
literature. Today, a number of Indian writers in English have contributed
substantially to modern English literature.
It is generally agreed that the
fiction and drama are the most suitable literary form for the exploration of
experiences and ideas in the context of our time, and Indian English fiction
and drama occupies its proper place in the World literature. There are critics
and commentators in England
and America
who appreciate Indian English novels and dramas. Indian writers of fiction and drama
discovered a whole new world. Indian English novelists and dramatists defined
the area, and brought the Indo-Anglian novel and drama within hailing distance
of the latest novels and dramas of the West. They established the suppositions,
the manner, the concept of character, and the nature of the themes which were
to give the Indian novel and drama its particular distinctiveness.
The present anthology puts
together incisive and highly rated articles on almost all the important Indian
novelists and dramatists in English. It goes on to include perceptive and analytical articles on the renowned
novelists and playwrights such as Arundhati
Roy, R.K Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Arun Joshi, Arvind Adiga,
Anita Desai, Makarand Paranjape, Shashi
Despandey, Rohinton Mistry, Shobha De, Chetan Bhagat, Amitav Ghosh, Badal Sircar, Tendulkar, Indra
Parthasarathy, Girish Karnad, Mahesh Dattani, Mohan
Rakesh and so on
