Critical Essays On Indian Writing In English Presented To Armando Menezes

Festschrift honoring Armando Menezes, b. 1902, Indian poet and educationist.

This volume is a collection of authoritative studies in singnificant aspects of Indian Writing in English. The essays here represent general studies, critical considerations, evaluations of forms and schools and critiques of individual works.

Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

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"What emerges from Kachru's fine work is the potential demarcation of an entire field, rather than merely the fruitful exploration of a topic. . . . [Kachru] is to be congratulated for having taken us as far as he already has and for doing so in so stimulating and so productive a fashion." -- World Englishes "A potent addition to theoretical, sociolinguistic, attitudinal and methodological explorations vis-à-vis the spread and functions of, and innovations in, English from the viewpoint of a non-Western scholar." -- The Language Teacher Winner of the Joint First Prize, Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Competition of the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, 1987

The book seeks to highlight Rabindranath Tagore’s genius as a rebel dramatist. More lovingly called Gurudev, Tagore is one of India’s most cherished renaissance figures. He was a social reformer and a humanitarian. Through his writings he presented his protest against prevailing social evils like idolatry, religious bigotry, caste system, class divisions and gender biases. Tagore was ahead of his times; his literary works translated the essence of their creative impulses into a social context and helped people to dream of a better world even in the darkest times.