Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings
Author : Malashri Lal
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Indic literature (English)
ISBN :
Postindependence Voices in South Asian Writings
Author : Alamgir Hashmi
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Indic literature (English)
ISBN :
Book Description
Offers Important Readings In South Asian Literatures In English. The Contribution Also Indicate The Main Trends. The First Of Its Kind In More Than Half A Century.
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set
Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1581 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405192445
Book Description
This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile
A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry
Author : Neil Roberts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470998660
Book Description
In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Author : Eugene Benson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1950 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134468482
Book Description
" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Dalit Literatures in India
Author : Joshil K. Abraham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317408799
Book Description
This book breaks new ground in the study of Dalit Literature, including in its corpus, a range of genres such as novels, autobiographies, pamphlets, poetry, short stories as well as graphic novels. With contributions from major scholars in the field, it critically examines Dalit literary theory and initiates a dialogue between Dalit writing and Western literary theory.
Intimate Class Acts
Author : Maryam Mirza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199089698
Book Description
The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between Sai, an upper-class Gujarati girl and Gyan, a lower-middle-class Nepali boy, crosses both class and ethnic boundaries. The marriage between Ram, an aristocratic Hindu and Rose, a working-class Englishwoman, transgresses racial and class lines while also reinforcing patriarchal hierarchies. These relationships in Ice-Candy-Man, The Inheritance of Loss and Rich Like Us reveal striking similarities in how gendered and classed identities are lived in India and Pakistan. In this scholarly work, Maryam Mirza examines ten novels in English by women writers from the Indian subcontinent. She explores the role of power and desire and of emotional and physical intimacy in cross-class relations. Among others, Mirza examines well-known novels such as Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron and works that have hitherto drawn limited critical attention, such as Moni Mohsin’s The End of Innocence and Brinda Charry’s The Hottest Day of the Year.
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Commonwealth literature (English)
ISBN :
Book Description
One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.
Ariel
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2001
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Book Description
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Pakistan
Author : Aparna Pande
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131744759X
Book Description
With a population of 190 million, Pakistan is strategically located at the crossroads of the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and has the second largest Muslim population in the world. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Pakistan provides an in-depth and comprehensive coverage of issues from identity and the creation of Pakistan in 1947 to its external relations as well as its domestic social, economic and political issues and challenges. The Handbook is divided into the following sections: • Economy and development • External relations and security • Foundations and identity • Islam and Islamization • Military and jihad • Politics and institutions • Social issues The Handbook explains the reasons why Pakistan is so often at the forefront of our daily news intake, with a focus on religious and political factors. It asks questions regarding the institutions and political parties which govern Pakistan and provides an insight into the relationships which the country has forged since its creation, culminating in a discussion of the state’s involvement in conflict. Covering a range of topics, this Handbook offers a wide range of perspectives on Pakistan. Bringing together a group of leading international scholars on Pakistan, the Handbook is a cutting-edge and interdisciplinary resource for those interested in studying Pakistani politics, economics, culture and society and South Asian Studies.
