Another Canon

Indian Texts and Traditions in English

By (author) Makarand R. Paranjape

Publication date:

01 July 2009

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

234x155mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9788190757003

‘Another Canon: Indian Texts and Traditions’ in English traces the development of Indian English literary and textual practice over a period of seven decades, focussing on classic texts which have fallen beyond the scope of the established canon.

Preface; Introduction: Situating the Contemporary Indian (English) Novel; Conversations in Bloomsbury: T S Eliot through Indian Eyes; Comrade Kirillov: A Critique of Communism; ‘A Horse and Two Goats’: Language, Culture and Representation in R K Narayan’s Fiction; The Tale of an Indian Education: The Silver Pilgrimage; ‘Clip Joint’: Modernity and its Discontents; Cultural and Political Allegory in Rich Like Us; Towards Redefining Boundaries: The Indo-Canadian Encounter in Days and Nights in Calcutta; The Golden Gate and the Quest for Self-Realization; Journey to Ithaca: An Epistle on the Fiction of the 1980s and 1990s; Cuckold in Indian English Fiction; Stephanians and Others: The Tale of Two Novelists

'Offers an insightful look at the trajectory of modernity, postcoloniality, postmodernity, and the contemporary Indian writer’s tentative relationship to the past. Recommended.' —P. Venkateswaran, Nassau Community College, ‘Choice’