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The Indian imagination
critical essays on Indian writing in English
Abstract
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 English - together represent the sociohistorical process of colonization and decolonization and the affirmation of identity.
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structure of consciousness, literary history and critical theory
pp.1-29
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61823-1_1a reassessment
pp.31-46
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61823-1_2pp.47-60
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61823-1_3a reappraisal
pp.83-103
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61823-1_5pp.105-124
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61823-1_6a critical reading
pp.125-148
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61823-1_7a critical reading
pp.149-161
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61823-1_8notes toward a reading of Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay
pp.163-188
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61823-1_9Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2000
Pages: 268
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-61823-1
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-61825-5
ISBN (digital): 978-1-349-61823-1
Full citation:
Verma K. D. (2000) The Indian imagination: critical essays on Indian writing in English. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.