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Authors,
Texts, Issues
Essays
on Indian Literature |
| K.
Satchidanandan |
| ISBN:
81-85753-56-3 |
| Year
of Pub:
2003 |
| Price:
Rs. 260.00 |
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The
Book :
Authors,
Texts, Issues by the author of the highly acclaimed Indian
Literature: Positions and Propositions brings together ten
essays concerning major aspects of Indian literature. The
essays in the first part examine some of the specific anxieties
of contemporary Indian poetry in the context of nation and
region, the democratizing and modernizing forces and processes
in post-Independence Indian literature, and the concept of
the diaspora in the context of Indian writing. The essays
in the second part look at some specific authors from fresh
perspectives: Sarojini Naidu is re-evaluated as an Indian
poet sharing the bhasha traditions; Saratchandra Chatterjee
is looked at from the point of view of his reception in different
languages, and Sarala Dasa's Mahabharata is examined for its
subaltern elements. The third part looks at the social dynamics
and poetics of Bhakti, the state of autobiography as a genre,
the theoretical status of the concept of Orientalism today,
and the activity of translation from an Indian perspective.
The book is essential reading for academics dealing with Indian
literature, students, researchers and readers broadly interested
in the issues of Indian literature and culture.
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The
Author : K.
Satchidanandan (b. 1946), eminent poet and critic, is currently
Secretary of the Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters),
New Delhi. He has authored 18 collections of poetry and
16 works of literary and social theory and criticism in
Malayalam besides 16 collections of poetry in translation
and two plays. His works in English include Summer Rain,
How to Go to the Tao Temple, Imperfect, So Many Births (translations
of his own poetry), Gestures (poetry from South Asia, ed.),
Signatures (Indian poetry, ed.), Under the Wild Skies (anthology
of short stories from Malayalam, ed.), Antaral (End-Century
Meditations, ed.) and Indian Poetry After Independence (Seminar
Papers, ed.).A pioneer of modern Indian poetry and literary
criticism, Satchidanandan has won several awards and honours
including Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards for prose, drama,
travelogue and poetry, Shrikant Verma Fellowship for poetry
translation (Madhya Pradesh), Ulloor award, P. Kunhiraman
Nair award, Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad (Calcutta) award,
Kumaran Asan award and Odakkuzhal award for poetry and Senior
Fellowship from the Department of Culture, Government of
India. He has represented India in several national and
international festivals of poetry and seminars including
the Festivals of India in USSR and China, the Paris Biennale
and Sarajevo Poetry Days. He has also lectured and read
his works in several countries including USA, Sweden, France,
Italy and Netherlands. His collections have appeared in
English, French and Italian besides all major Indian languages.
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| Reviews
: Evokes
in an poetic manner many a pause and repture central to the
cultural discourses of our times. |
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The
Book Review
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many questions and articulates them with clarity and force:
Supportive evidences are presented in plenty with an astonishing
range and variety. |
| The
Hindu |
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