The Indian Imagination: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English

✍ Scribed by K. D. Verma (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Indian Writing in English: Structure of Consciousness, Literary History and Critical Theory....Pages 1-29
Sri Aurobindo as a Poet: A Reassessment....Pages 31-46
The Social and Political Vision of Sri Aurobindo....Pages 47-60
Sri Aurobindo as a Critic....Pages 61-81
Mulk Raj Anand: A Reappraisal....Pages 83-103
Ideological Confrontation and Synthesis in Mulk Raj Anand’s Conversations in Bloomsbury....Pages 105-124
Balachandra Rajan’s The Dark Dancer: A Critical Reading....Pages 125-148
Myth and Imagery in Nissim Ezekiel’s The Unfinished Man: A Critical Reading....Pages 149-161
Humanity Defrauded: Notes toward a Reading of Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay....Pages 163-188
Alienation, Identity and Structure in Arun Joshi’s The Apprentice....Pages 189-202
The Metaphysics and Metastructure of Appearance and Reality in Arun Joshi’s The Last Labyrinth....Pages 203-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-268

✦ Subjects

Postcolonial/World Literature; Fiction; Cultural Studies; Imperialism and Colonialism; Twentieth-Century Literature