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The Indian Imagination. Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English.
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Hardback. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 510.
The Indian Imagination focuses on literary developments in English both in the colonial and postcolonial periods of Indian history. Six divergent writers - Aurobindo Ghose (Sri Aurobindo), Mulk Raj Anand, Balachandra Rajan, Nissim Ezekiel, Anita Desai, and Arun Joshi - represent a consciousness that has emerged from the confrontation between tradition and modernity. The colonial fantasy of British India was finally dissolved in the first half of this century, only to be succeeded by another fantasy, that of the reinstituted sovereign nation-state. This study argues that the two phases of history - like the two phases of Indian writing in ... Read more
The Indian Imagination focuses on literary developments in English both in the colonial and postcolonial periods of Indian history. Six divergent writers - Aurobindo Ghose (Sri Aurobindo), Mulk Raj Anand, Balachandra Rajan, Nissim Ezekiel, Anita Desai, and Arun Joshi - represent a consciousness that has emerged from the confrontation between tradition and modernity. The colonial fantasy of British India was finally dissolved in the first half of this century, only to be succeeded by another fantasy, that of the reinstituted sovereign nation-state. This study argues that the two phases of history - like the two phases of Indian writing in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Language
English
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312211394
SKU
V9780312211394
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K.D. Verma is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.
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