Myth And History In Contemporary Indian Novel In English

Myth-History Combine Marks The Ruling Motive Of The Contemporary Indian Novel In English.In Amitav Ghosh S The Circle Of Reason, Reason Makes A Full Circle And Is Subjected To Subversion Towards The End With A Post-Modern Ambivalence.In The Great Indian Novel, Shashi Tharoor Is Given To Gigantism Of History And Makes Great Political Personages Parade On The Dice Game Of National Politics, As A Part Of Post-Colonial Discourse. Salman Rushdie S Midnight S Children Is An Enabling Text . The Text Synchronises The Individual History With National History Lending It A Universal Significance.The Texts Seek To Picture The Socio-Political Situation Of Post-Independence India With A Post-Modern Urgency.

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In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.

Through a comparison with theatrical performance the argument develops that in both theatre and fiction the concepts of performance and performativity transform classical Indian mythic poetics. In the mythic symbiosis of performance and storytelling in Indian tradition, myth becomes a liberating space of consciousness, where rigid categories and boundaries are transcended.

The Book Aims At An Evaluation Of The Novels Of Kamala Markandaya In The Perspective Of Class-Consciousness Embedded In Her Fictional Narrative. The Study Attempts To Explore The Impact Of Class-Consciousness On The Attitudes, Manners And Conditions Of Living In The Context Of Modern India As It Moves From A Conservative And Traditional Social Order To A Liberal And Urbanised Socio-Economic And Cultural Ethos. It Seeks To Explore Markandaya S Concern With The Predicament Of The Individual In A Class-Ridden Society Subjected To A Process Of Radical Change. An Attempt Has Been Made To Substantiate The Hypothesis That In The Process Of This Change, The Self Confronts Tensions, Uncertainties And Conflicts That Lead To Deep Psychological And Spiritual Wounds. The Self, With Its Desires, Instincts And Dreams, Encounters A World Of Reality Governed By Social, Economic And Cultural Forces. This Encounter Leads To A Crisis Of Identity. The Self Tries To Surmount This Crisis Through Resistance Or Reconciliation, Through Protest Or Surrender. In This Process Of Self S Grappling With Reality, There Is Anguish And Suffering. This Study, In Short, Is An Attempt To Exploring The Paradox Of Human Condition In Terms Of Conflict Between Self And Society, Between Free Will And Necessity.

The Third Revised And Enlarged Edition Of The Directory Of Libraries In India Contains Much Larger Number Of Addresses Of Libraries In India. Special Chapters Have Been Added On Addresses Of Institutions Offering Courses On Important Subjects Like Management, Medicine And Nursing, Engineering And Technology, Architecture, Law, Sports Etc.It Is Hoped That The Directory In Its Present Form Would Be Found Highly Useful By Publishers And Booksellers In Mailing Their Publicity Material. The Directory Would Also Be Useful To Librarians And Others Concerned With Educational Institutions And Organisations For Getting Information About Libraries In India.

Bharati Mukherjee Is One Of The Major Novelists Of Indian Diaspora Who Have Achieved Enviable Positions Within A Comparatively Short Creative Span. As An Expatriate In The United States, She Has Captured Evocatively The Indian Immigrant Experience In Her Five Novels And Two Collections Of Short-Fiction. The Creative Odyssey That Started With The Tiger S Daughter (1972) And Produced Leave It To Me (1997) Recently Has Kept Her Seriously Involved In Exploring The Complexities Of Cross-Cultural Interactions.The Present Volume Is The First Full-Length Study Of Mukherjee S Creative Corpus From A Cross-Cultural Perspective. The Book, Divided In Six Chapters, Opens With An Exhaustive Account Of The Major Concepts Of Culture And It Ingeniously Traces The Nature Of Formative Influences On Her Psyche In The Second Chapter. Mukherjee S Fiction Has Been Examined In Three Well-Marked Phases Expatriation, Transition, Immigration In Three Substantive Chapters. The Quality Of Cultural Conflict In All Its Multiplicity Forms The Crux Of Her Accomplishments As A Creative Artist. She Has An Esteemed Place In The Luminous Galaxy Of Indian Men Of Letters Writing Abroad With Native Ethos Providing Them A Living Ambience. The Fiction Of Bharati Mukherjee : A Cultural Perspective Marks A Milestone In The Critical Scholarship On The Third World Literature.