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VIKRAM
SETH'S A Suitable Boy
An Anthology
of Recent Criticism |
| Edited
by:
Murari
Prasad |
| ISBN:
81-85753-72-5 |
| Year
of Pub:
2005 |
| Price:
Rs. 400.00(hb) |
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The
Book :
This
collection of essays by diverse hands offers a critical appraisal
of the disparate range of themes that make Vikram Seth's panoramic
novel, A Suitable Boy, worth its weight and heft. It examines
Seth's extensive takes on the issues of inter-faith face-off,
language politics, colonial hang-over in postcolonial India,
modernity and gender inequity, caste prejudices, and several
others in this multi-stranded Indian English novel. The interrogation
of the author's mode of narrating the nation with a variety
of calling cards is consistently matched with an incisive
probe into the complexity of characters and events located
in the socio-cultural milieu of the early postcolonial India
of nineteen-fifties. Besides, with Seth's concise literary
biography and a comprehensive bibliography for those who wish
to explore the text further, this anthology is a resource
which the readers and researchers can't afford not to have.
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The Editor :
Murari Prasad is currently associate professor of English
in the Faculty of Education in Sana'a University, the Republic
of Yemen. In India, he has taught English language and literature
for over fifteen years at D.S. College, Katihar (Bihar). His
professional interests include Indian English Literature as
well as American and British fiction. He has published a string
of papers on Amitav Ghosh, V.S. Naipaul, Arundhati Roy and
contributed on Upamanyu Chatterjee to the Dictionary of
Literary Biography (South Asian Writing). His latest project,
Language of Contemporay Indian English Fiction, in addition
to a festschrift volume for Professor Damodar Thakur is due
to appear in the coming year.
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