Indian English literature

Introduction to Indian writing in English, inclusive of fiction: Indian English Literature is defined as the contribution of Indian writers to the Literature in English. With the consolidation of the British power in India, English, the language of rulers also began to exercise its influence on the intellectuals of the country. To the educated people, English language is a gateway to western knowledge. English provided a window for the Indian intellectuals to have a look at the wide world. Indian English

Literature is a term used to describe written and sometimes spoken material, writing that possesses literary merit and Language that foregrounds Literariness, as opposed to ordinary. The term derived from Latin Literatura meaning writing formed with letters, although contemporary definitions include texts that are spoken or sung. Literature can be classified according to whether it is fiction or non-fiction and whether it is poetry or prose. It can be further distinguished according to major forms

ABSTRACT Indian English Literature constitutes the works of the Indian authors, poets and literary artists who compose their works in English language. Indian English literature has drawn the attention from every quarter of the country, making the genre magnificent in its own right. The writers of this genre have skillfully made use of their own intelligence and intellect in weaving the web of their literary works. While studying their literary works, the Indian audience finds a kind of close association

Women’s Language: A history of Indian-English Women Writers. “Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Indeed if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some would say greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out, she was locked

Through the prescribed framework of magic realism, the novel allows its multitude of characters, belonging to diverse cultural backgrounds, to appraise and originate their own versions of Indian history, thus subverting British colonial versions of history. Magic realism becomes obligatory to communicate the postcoloniality of India, and within its framework, the novel explores and presents a postcolonial history of its own. The cultural and social hybridity, along with the historical hybridity present

Abstract: In this modern India one comes across certain intelligent and courageous girls who raise their voices against the patriarchal norms. Such girls fight their battles on their own to change their destiny. They not only transform their lives, but are helpful in transforming others’ lives also. They contribute actively in the national development too. These are the girls who celebrate their journey from victimized to liberated and individual selves. Kashmira Sheth and Kamla Markanaya depict

culture, hence Salman Rushdie position as a prominent Anglo-Indian postcolonial writer. In this paragraph of Midnight’s Children, we are able to see the psychological effects of colonial domination. An author is often influenced by his or her

Arundhati Roy Presents a slice of life in a small Indian town where male hegemony as well as Androcentric power relation are prevailing on the other hand, she depicts different types of male and female identity challenging myths. This novel depicts the feministic elements, caste and class gender, political and childhood exploitation. It does not deal with one particular theme. It encompasses all the social issues. The dominance of patriarchal voice and treatment of Dalits and women are mainly focused

DIASPORIC CONSCIOUSNESS IN AMIT CHAUDHURI’S “A NEW WORLD” Abstract Diaspora is a displacement of a community or individual from one geographical region to another geographical region. Indian English Fiction is repleted with several instance of diasporic issues where the artist makes an effective endeavour to present India’s rich varied culture, tradition, and heritage while living in abroad. Like Amit Chaudhuri’s fourth novel “A New World” under the prespective of diasporic issues such as rootlessness

Fashioning/Re-Fashioning of the Woman of Mahābhārata in Colonial India in English Re-tellings. Romesh Chunder Dutt’s Mahabharata: the epic of India rendered into English verse in English first appeared in 1898, hence,