Commonwealth literature in English: past and present

The present book Commonwealth Literature in English: Past and Present is a modest attempt to explore and elucidate critically some of the well-known writers of the commonwealth literature. The authors whose works have been critically analyzed in this book are Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, R.P. Jhabvala, Manohar Malgonkar, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Asif Currimbhoy, Yasmine Gunaratne, Bharati Mukherjee, V.5. Naipaul, Peggy Payne, Bapsi Sidhwa, Tehmina Durani, Margaret Laurence, Carl Jung, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, Patrick White, Taslima Nasrin and some short story writers of Sri Lanka.
CONTENTS
Preface
l. Commonwealth Literature: Philosophy and Poetry
(With Special Reference to The Remains of the Day)
- Dr. Anita Ghosh 1
2. R.N. Tagore's Treatment of Love: The Highest
Manifestation of Human Consciousness
- Bithika Sarkar 28
3. Re-Interpretation of Myth in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
- Dr. Ratri Roy 39
4. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's The Householder: A Critical
Exploration
- Dr. Nagendra Kumar Singh 54
5. Influence on Manohar Malgonkar
- Dr. Sudhirkumar J. Singh 70
6. The Seeking Self in the Novels of Anita Desai
- Dr. Anita Singh 83
7. The Art of Characterization in the Novels of Shashi
Deshpande
- Dr. Sheikh Salahuddin 103
8. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: A Study in
Theme and Technique
- Dr. Amar Nath Prasad 123
9. Amitav Ghosh's In An Antique Land: A Post-Modernist's
Rendezvous with History
-Dr. Uday Shankar Ojha 140
10. The Refugee and Naxal Nexus in Asif Currimbhoy's
'Bengal Trilogy' : A Socio-Critical Explication
- Dr. J. Samuel Kirubahar and Ms. R. Meena 150
11. Culture Clash, Confusion and Final Assimilation: A Study
of Immigrant Experience in A Change of Skies by Yasmine
Gunaratne, An American Brat by Bapsi Sidhwa, and Jasmine
by Bharati Mukherjee
- Dr. (Mrs.) B.R. Agrawal 164
12. India as Revealed in V.5. Naipaul's India: A Wounded
Civilization and Peggy Payne's Sister India
- Dr. Mrs. K. Sandhya 182
13. Tehmina Durrani's Blasphemy: A Study of Socio-Religio
Decadence
-Dr.P.K.Chaudhary 191
14. Tehmina Durrani's Blasphemy from a Multiple Perspective
- Dr. K. Sandhya 199
15. Margaret Laurence, Carl Jung and The Manawaka Women
- Dr. Samiran Kumar Paul 204
16. Negritude in Nadine Gordimer's Major Novels
-Dr. (Mrs.) Pradnaya V. Ghorpade 227
17. Ideological Clash Between Primitivism and Modernism:
A Thematic Study of Chinua Achebe's Novels Things Fall
Apart and Arrow of God
- Radha Kanta Mishra 236
18. Taslima Nasrin'sFrench Inver: A Flawed Journey Towards
Self-Discovery
- Dr. (Mrs.) Shalini R. Sinha 249
19. Cutting Edges: Biology of Experience in the Works of the
Nobel Laureate Patrick White
-Dr. Ashok Kumar 257
20. The Tamil Mind and Identity in Sri Lankan Tamil Short
Stories in English: Representative or Lopsided?
- Kandiah Shriganeshan 273