AMITAV
GHOSH
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
Edited by Brinda Bose
(With a Foreword by Amitav Ghosh) |
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A
most comprehensive treatment of the works of one of
the most important post-colonial, postmodern writer
of our times.... This exegetical interpretative study
has a sure place in present context of English studies
in India.
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The
Hindu
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ENGLISH
STUDIES IN INDIA
Widening Horizons
C.D. Narasimhaiah |
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A
valuable critique of the problematics involved in the
discipline of English Studies in India over the past 50
Years. |
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The
Hindu
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V.S.
NAIPAUL
An Anthology of Recent Criticism
Edited by Purabi Panwar |
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An
eminently readable and useful collection of essays that
are insightful, analytical and sensitive to the larger
themes of Naipaul's work and of post-colonial writing. |
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The
Pioneer |
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HUMANITIES
AND PEDAGOGY
Teaching of Humanities Today
Edited by Kailash C. Baral |
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A one
of the seminal works serutinizing the significant issues
relating to pedagogical possibilities in the teaching
of humanities, including the teaching of English. |
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Summerhill,
IIAS Review |
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Author,
Texts, Issues
Essays on Indian Literature
Edited by K. Satchidanandan |
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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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Raises
many questions and articulates them with clarity and force:
Supportive evidences are presented in plenty with an astonishing
range and variety. |
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The
Hindu |
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INDIAN
ENGLISG LITERATURE : 1980-2000
A Critical Survey
Edited by M.K. Naik and Shyamala A. Narayan |
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An
extermely useful tool for researchers and students of
Indian Writing in English. |
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World
Literature Today |
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A
valuable addition to the corpus of Indo-English literary
criticism.... an indispensable source book for scholars. |
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The
Hindu |
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THE
TWICE BORN FICTION
By Meenakshi Mukherjee |
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A Book
that makes most previous writing on the subject seem off
the mark and no one interested in Indian writing in English
should ignore it.. |
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The
Times of India |
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So
assured, compelling and reasonable are the argument, insights
and conclusions in The Twice Born Fiction that I must
now settle down to rereading the text. |
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Hindustan
Standard |
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INDIAN
ODE TO THE WEST WIND
Studies in Literary Encounters
Edited by Sisir Kumar Das |
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A
delectable feast for the intellect. |
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The
North-East Times |
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A
large and stimulating window to the complex and mutually
enriching world literatures. |
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Indian
Literature |
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RETHINKING
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Edited by U.M. Nanavati & Prafulla
C. Kar |
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Libraries
would benefit from having this book on their shelves.
It indicates that just as Indian English fiction is
going through a big boom in the recent years, criticism
is not lagging far behind.
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The
Book Review |
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R.K.
Narayan
An Anthology of Recent Criticism
Edited by C.N. Srinath |
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Some
of the best known commentators on indian English Writing
and R.K. Narayan are gathered here and one has only
to dip into this volume to learn about the main contours
of R.K.NArayan criticism.
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The
Journal of Indian Writing in English |
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MAKERS
OF INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Edited by C.D. Narasimhaiah |
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This
book is in the right direction in trying to evaluate a
hundred years of Indian writing in English in an Indian
ethos. All the hallowed names have one or two papers devoted
for them in the book. |
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The
Hindu |
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It
is a laudable effort and a necessary inclusion in the
growing number of critical volumes on Indian writing in
English. |
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Indian
Review of Books |
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RUSHDIE'S
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
Edited by Meenakshi Mukherjee |
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Despite
the profuseness of the Rushdie industry, this is one
of the best collections of critical writing on what
remains his finest novel and the essays by Neil Ten
Kortenaar, Harish Trivedi and Mujeebuddin Syed (originally
published in JCL) are particularly good.
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Journal
of Commonwealth Literature, U.K. |
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INDIAN
LITERATURE
Positions and Propositions
Edited by K. Satchidanandan |
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The
primary impression one gets from reading through these
prose works is of an acute critical mind..... (which)
plots out both a complete historiography of Indian Literatures
and a forward looking agenda.... often very illuminating,
always graceful.... a stimulating collection.
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World
Literature Today, U.S.A. |
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CANADIAN
VOICES
An Anthology of Canadian Poetry
Edited by Shirin Kudchedkar & jameela Begum |
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The
anthology, apart from providing a rich collection, exemplifies
an ideal of multiculturalism.... This well produced
anthology is admirable for its integrity and forthrightness.
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The
Book Review |
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