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Parsee Novel

Indian English Literature Indian Women Novelists an anthology of critical essays in 18 vols. R.K. Dhawan, ed.

Set I, Vols. 1-5 Focus on Feminist and Women’s Studies and detailed discussions on the fiction of Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Bharati Mukherjee, Shobha De, Rama Mehta and Gita Mehta ISBN: 81-85218-38-2 Rs. 2000 (5 vols.)

Set II, Vols. 6-11 Focus on Feminist movement and detailed discussions on the fiction of Kamala Markandaya, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Nayantara Sahgal, Namita Gokhale, Kamala Das, Jai Nimbkar, Nina Sibal and others. ISBN: 81-85218-39-0 Rs. 2500 (6 vols.)

Set III, Vols. 12-18 Detailed discussions on the fiction of Nergis Dalal, Dina Mehta, Attia Hosain, Tara Ali Baig, Shourie Daniels, Santha Rama Rau, Meena Alexander, Raji Narasimhan, Uma Vasudev, Anita Desai, Shobha De, Shashi Deshpande, Bharati Mukherjee, Gita Mehta, Githa Hariharan, and Jai Nimbkar. The last two volumes are devoted to regional women writers: Indira Goswami (Assamese), Rajee Seth, Mridula Garg and Krishna Sobti (Hindi), Ismat Chughtai and Qurratulain Hyder (Urdu), Lakshmi Kannan (Tamil), Malati Chendur (Telugu), Amrita Pritam, Ajit Cour and Daleep Kaur Tiwana (Punjabi), Sita Devi, Ashapurna Debi and Mahasweta Devi (Bengali), Gauri Deshpande and Kamal Desai (Marathi). ISBN: 81-85218-40-4 Rs. 3000 (7 vols.)

Parsi Fiction (2 vol. set) Novy Kapadia, R.K. Dhawan & Dodiya, ed. This critical anthology explores the distinctive character of the Parsi novels of the current era, as is reflected in the works of Rohinton Mistry, Bapsi Sidhwa, Dina Mehta, Firdaus Kanga, Keki Daruwalla and Boman Desai. Also discussed are the works of the latest Parsi writers, Ardashir Vakil, Meher Pestonji and Farishta Murzban Dinshaw. ISBN: 81-7551-107-9 Rs. 1000 (2 vols.)

Narendra Kumar The Parsee novel in English is postcolonial in its range. Steeped in rich Zoroastrian myths and legends, young promising Parsee novelists like Firdaus Kanga, Rohinton Mistry, Farrukh Dhondy, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ardashir Vakil and Boman Desai use English as an instrument of self-assertion. The book examines major thematic preoccupations of both the expatriate & stay-at-home Parsee novelists in relation to the Zoroastrian worldview. ISBN: 81-7551-115-X Rs. 400 Self and Identity in Indian Fiction S.P. Swain The novels analyzed in this book focus on the protagonists’s quest for identity on the sociological as well as on the philosophical plane. Among the novelists discussed are: Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Arun Joshi, Salman Rushdie, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao and Amitav Ghosh. ISBN: 81-7551-162-1 Rs. 400 Voice of the Voiceless: Mulk Raj Anand and Jayakanthan Dominic Savio Mulk Raj Anand, the renowned Indian English novelist, and D. Jayakanthan, the best known contemporary Tamil novelist, bear essentially the same social consciousness. The life of the poor is the subject matter of most of their novels. Their art is an instrument for social transformation. The comparative study of the two authors is innovative and makes a rich contribution to literature. ISBN: 81-7551-167-2 Rs. 500

Modern Indian Fiction: History, Politics and Individual in the Novels of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Upamanyu Chatterjee P.S. Ravi Indian English novel has undergone a significant development in keeping with recent trends in contemporary fiction worldwide. The book explores these developments in terms of themes and techniques through a selection of novels by three leading contemporary writers: Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh

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and Upamanuy Chatterjee. It focuses on the emergence of a new cosmopolitan consciousness through the study of a close interaction between the historio-political contexts and the individual and the resultant search for identity in a complex world. ISBN: 81-7551-117-6 Rs. 400 Class and Caste in Literature The Fiction of Stowe and Mulk Raj Anand J. Bheemaiah It is an interesting comparative study of African-American novelist Harriet Stowe and Indian novelist Mulk Raj Anand. It makes an in-depth study of slaves in America and untouchables in India, projected by the two writers in their works. ISBN: 81-7551-161-3 Rs. 400 Theme of Protest in Indian Fiction H.A. Singh The book discusses the theme of protest in the fiction of Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal and Anita Desai. Important issues like imperialism, exploitation of the poor and suppression of women constitute the subject of the book. ISBN: 81-7551-150-2 Rs. 400

Indian Women Writers R.K. Dhawan, ed. India has contributed significantly to the world literature. This contribution of India has been chiefly through the Indian writing in English, women novelists in the forefront in this respect. The book comprises critical essays on contemporary writers, especially Arundhati Roy, Nayantara Sahgal, Ruth Jhabvala and Kamala Markandaya. ISBN: 81-7551-109-5 Rs. 500

Comparative Indian Literature C.R. Visweswara Rao & R.K. Dhawan The first part of the book is devoted to theory: the definition of comparative Indian literature, feministic comparative approach, cross-cultural studies, Indian aesthetics of translation and other such areas. Rest of the book contains comparative studies of the Mahabharata, Malayalam and Oriya poetry, Marathi and Kannada fiction as well as spe-

cific works of R.K. Narayan, M.R. Anand, Raja Rao, Vikram Seth, Bhisham Sahni, Sri Aurobindo, T.S. Eliot and other writers. ISBN: 81-7551-011-7 Rs. 500

Writers of the Indian Diaspora R.K. Dhawan, ed. In the recent years, a great body of fiction, written by writers of Indian origin, has emerged on the world literary scene. A large number of these diasporic writers have given expression to their creative urge and have brought credit to the Indian English fiction as a distinctive force. The volume comprises critical essays on some of the most significant writers, namely Salman Rushdie, Meena Alexander, Jhumpa Lahiri and Stephen Gill. ISBN: 81-7551-111-7 Rs. 400

Discussing Indian Women Writers Some Feminist Issues Alessandro Monti and R.K. Dhawan, ed. The central objective of the book is to discuss the theoretical investigations carried out by Indian women writers in their works and to arrive at a deeper understanding of feminist contentions. It discusses major Indian women writers including Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal, Shashi Deshpande, Rama Mehta, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapur, Kamala Das, Mahasweta Devi, who have given a graphic picture of Indian woman in their works. ISBN: 81-7551-128-1 Rs. 500

History-Fiction Interface: M.R. Anand, Nayantara Sahgal, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor and O.V. Vijayan T.N. Dhar The book studies the Indian English novelist’s involvement with history. It is based on the assumption that history-fiction connection is fascinating as well as culturally significant. The first two chapters discuss theoretical, methodological and historical issues related to the history-fiction interface. Later chapters provide a detailed analysis of the novels of M.R. Anand, Nayantara Sahgal, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor and O.V. Vijayan, to illustrate the whole range of the variety in the novelist’s use of history. ISBN: 81-7551-059-5 Rs. 500

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History and Fiction: Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Khushwant Singh & Mukul Kesavan Sudhendu Shekhar The book examines how the novelists under discussion have drawn on history as the raw material of fiction. It offers a postmodernist approach to the novels of these writers. ISBN: 81-7551-154-0 Rs. 400

Travel Writing and Colonialism Sachidananda Mohanty In recent years, new developments in theory have elevated travel writing to the forefront of literary studies. Basing itself on some of these developments in an interdisciplinary framework, the book shows that a study of colonial travel can help us define some of our vexing postcolonial identities. The book makes a rich contribution to the domain of literature, travel writing and cross-cultural studies. ISBN: 81-7551-146-X Rs. 400

Narrating Colonialism: Postcolonial Images of the British in Indian English Fiction D. Maya The book is an investigation into postcolonial reactions to the colonial experience as mirrored in the images of the British presented in Indian English fiction. Almost the entire range of post-Independence Indian English fiction from the works of Mulk Raj Anand to Salman Rushdie is brought within the canvas of the study. ISBN: 81-7551-029-3 Rs. 400

Kanthapura to Malgudi S. Xavier Alphonse The book makes a scholarly attempt to examine the portrayal of South Indian culture in thirty-seven Indian English novels written by seven eminent authors: K.S. Venkataramani, K. Nagarajan, K. Markandaya, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, B. Rajan and Santha Rama Rau. The book evaluates critically the cultural values and assumptions such as the roles of womanhood, relationship, myths and puranas, the guru, religion, bhakti and proverbs. ISBN: 81-7551-030-7 Rs. 400

Major Indian Novelists K. Venkata Reddy The book contains illuminating critical studies on the pioneers of the modern English novel namely, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Bhabani Bhattacharya and Kamala Markandaya. ISBN: 81-85218-29-3 Rs. 200

50 Years of Indian Writing R.K. Dhawan, ed. Several writers through Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy, Girish Karnad, Nirad Chaudhari, Mahasweta Devi hold centrestage in the contemporary scenario. The post-1947 period indeed has registered a remarkable growth, especially in the area of fiction. The volume is a tribute to the post-independence Indian writing, in its multi-faceted aspects. ISBN: 81-7551-067-6 Rs. 400

Five Great Indian Novels: A Discourse Analysis Ashok Thorat The main objective of the study is to show how discourse analysis is primarily an analysis of language in use. This implies that the analysis is done at two levels: linguistic and pragmatic. An attempt is made to analyse the language of the characters in their social interaction, with reference to five major Indian novels, namely, Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable, Raja Rao’s Kanthapura, Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, Rama Mehta’s Inside the Haveli and Chaman Nahal’s Azadi. ISBN: 81-7551-073-7 Rs. 500 Gandhian Ideology & Indian Novel A.V. Subba Rayudu Mahatma Gandhi has been regarded, by common consent, the greatest man of the twentieth century. Major writers like Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Manohar Malgonkar and Nayantara Sahgal have given expression to Gandhian thought and philosophy in their fiction. The present book examines the impact of Gandhi on Chaman Nahal, eminent contemporary novelist and the winner of prestigious Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Azadi. ISBN: 81-7551-075-7 Rs. 400

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Comparative Perspectives on Indian Literature A. Ramakrishna Rao, ed. The volume deals with some significant texts and themes in Indian writing. A few of the critical assessments have a comparative bias. Writers like Gandhi, Raja Rao, M.R. Anand, R.K. Narayan, Ruth Jhabvala, Kamala Markandaya, Sri Aurobindo, V. Satyanarayana are discussed with reference to specific texts. ISBN: 81-85218-64-1 Rs. 400 Studies in Indian Writing in English P. Bayapa Reddy The focus of this study is on Indian Drama in English, with special reference to Nissim Ezekiel, Asif Currimbhoy and Girish Karnad. The novelists discussed are Kamala Markandaya, Manohar Malgonkar, Salman Rushdie. ISBN: 81-85218-26-9 Rs. 200

Indian Writing Today C.R. Visweswara Rao The book offers perspectives on a number of contemporary writers. The approaches range from psychoanalysis to stylistic analysis, from political allegory to the women’s question, in the works of A.K. Ramanujan, Kamala Das, Rabindranath Tagore, Badal Sircar, Girish Karnad, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, K. Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal & Shashi Deshpande. ISBN: 81-85218-35-8 Rs. 300

New Perspectives on Indian Writing Narendra Kumar, ed. In the post-Independence era, Indian English poetry and fiction have won universal recognition. Ezekiel, Ramanujan and Kamala Das in poetry, and M.R. Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai and Salman Rushdie in fiction are being assessed both at home and abroad. The novels of promising writers like Shashi Tharoor, Vikram Seth, Indira Ganesan and Firdaus Kanga offer fresh perspectives. ISBN: 81-7551-027-7 Rs. 300

Fiction of the Nineties Veena Noble Dass & R.K. Dhawan, ed The book introduces to the wider audience some of the significant novels published in

India and elsewhere in the 1990s. The richness and diversity of the new writing is represented in the fiction of Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Gita Mehta, Shobha De, Rohinton Mistry, Bharati Mukherjee, Yasmine Gooneratne, Bapsi Sidhwa, Miles Franklin and others. ISBN: 81-85218-90-0 Rs. 400

Indian Writing in the New Millennium R.K Dhawan, ed. Indian writing in English, including literature in translation, has come of age. Since 1981 when Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children received the Booker prize, Indian novelists have achieved spectacular success. A number of them, including Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, Shashi Tharoor, Vikram Chandra, Arundhati Roy and Manju Kapur have emerged as major literary figures on the international scene. Likewise, Indian literature in regional languages has registered a remarkable growth, and several writers like U.R. Anantha Murthy, Mahasweta Devi, Quarratulain Hyder and Girish Karnad have been adequately translated into English. ISBN: 81-7551-090-0 Rs. 400

Dalit Literature and African-American Literature N.M. Aston, ed. The book deals with the literature of two marginalized groups of people, namely, the Indian Dalits and the American Blacks. Both Dalit writers in India and African-American writers in the US have given expression in their writings to the protest against the established order of society that discriminates one man from another on the basis of caste, colour and religion. ISBN: 81-7551-116-8 Rs. 400

Point of View: A Personal Response to Life, Literature and Politics Nayantara Sahgal The book brings together Nayantara Sahgal’s public addresses at literary conferences, and a varied selection of her published articles, her novels, her personal life and her comments on the Indian scene. ISBN: 81-7551-017-X Rs. 400

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Man-Woman Relationship in Indian Fiction Seema Suneel The book critically examines the treatment of the theme of man-woman relationship in Indian fiction, with special reference to three contemporary novels—Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors, Syed Abdul Malik’s The Tale of a Nomadic Soul and Rajendra Awasthy’s The Creeping Shadows. ISBN: 81-85218-98-6 Rs. 300

Style in Indian English Fiction Z.N. Patil The book analyzes some Indian novelists in terms of the operation of the principles of textual and interpersonal pragmatics. The illustrative material is drawn from the novels of Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Khushwant Singh, Ahmed Ali, Humayun Kabir, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Rama Mehta, Chaman Nahal, Manohar Malgonkar, Sasthi Brata, Jai Nimbkar, Balraj Khanna, Salman Rushdie and others. ISBN: 81-85218-85-4 Rs. 400

Indian English Phonology N. Gopalakrishnan Nair Teaching the skills of oral communication is an important aspect of language teaching. The book focuses on certain aspects of language teaching which have long been neglected by the curriculum planners, syllabus designers, text book writers and evaluators. ISBN: 81-7551-008-0 Rs. 200

Indian English Literature since Independence K. Ayyappa Paniker, ed. Indian English literature since Independence reflects a rich diversity. The book makes an intensive study of the works of the writers like Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai and Salman Rushdie who have helped in shaping the modern Indian Writing in English. ISBN: 81-85218-33-1 Rs. 300

Recent Indian Fiction R.S. Pathak, ed. The volume aims at evaluating thematic preoccupations, fictional form and narrative

techniques of the Indian novel of the 1980s and the 1990s in a systematic way. The writers discussed are: Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, Vikram Seth, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Shashi Tharoor, Amit Chaudhuri, Allan Sealy, Farrukh Dhondy, Nina Sibal, Shashi Deshpande, Bharati Mukherjee, Namita Gokhale. ISBN: 81-85218-81-1 Rs. 400

Charles Dickens and Premchand: Novelists with a Social Purpose Pramila Batra Both Premchand and Dickens felt inspired by a humanitarian zeal and their reformative fervour to combat the injustice and the oppression to which certain individuals and segments of society were subjected, in their respective times. The book makes a comparative study of Dickens and Premchand, the two great writers known for their passion and compassion for humanity. ISBN: 81-7551-101-X Rs. 300

The Political Novels of Milan Kundera and O.V. Vijayan: A Comparative Study C. Gopinathan Pillai The book compares the fiction of Milan Kundera and O.V. Vijayan in an illuminating and original manner. Both Kundera and Vijayan are concerned with problems posed by societies, exposed to totalitarianism. Abuse of political power was endemic to both post-Stalinist Czechoslovakia and postNehruvian India. The method of juxtaposition adopted by the author while analysing the novels of Kundera and Vijayan leads to interesting new cross-cultural findings. ISBN: 81-7551-015-3 Rs. 300

Jhumpa Lahiri: The Master Storyteller Suman Bala, ed. Jhumpa Lahiri, recipient of the coveted Pulitzer award for her collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies, and the writer of the novel Namesake, is a voice of Indo-American origin. She may be considered a writer of Indian diaspora. Through her characters, she tells us about the human conditions that have

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universal resonance in her immigrant identity that forms the core of her stories. ISBN: 81-7551-125-7 Rs. 400

Image of the New Woman in the Presentation of Love and Sex in the Novels of Ruth Jhabvala Hilda David Ruth Jhabvala, the eminent Indian English novelist, is best known for her novel Heat and Dust. The present book critically examines the theme of man-woman relationship, homosexuality, lesbianism and the third sex in her major novels. ISBN: 81-7551-062-5 Rs. 300

Shashi Deshpande’s Fiction: A Study in Women Empowerment and Postcolonial Discourse P.G. Joshi The status of women all over the world has undergone a rapid change in the recent decades. The book aims at analyzing Shashi Deshpande’s novels in the light of postcolonial and feminist theories. It takes into account all the novels of Deshpande. ISBN: 81-7551-133-8 Rs. 400

The Novels of Shashi Deshpande in Postcolonial Arguments

Women in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande Suman Bala, ed. In her works, Shashi Deshpande depicts woman in myriad roles—wife, mother, daughter and an individual in her own right. The anthology brings together articles by eminent scholars on the subject and makes a rich contribution to the areas of Indian fiction, women’s studies and sociology. ISBN: 81-86256-07-5 Rs. 300

Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence: A Study Santwana Haldar Shashi Deshpande is the best-known Indian novelist today. The book discusses in detail her award-winning novel That Long Silence, covering all aspects. ISBN: 81-7851-021-9 Rs. 400

The Novels of Shashi Deshpande Sarabjit K. Sandhu The book makes an exhaustive study of the depiction of the image of woman in her novels The Dark Holds No Terrors, Roots and Shadows, That Long Silence. ISBN: 81-85218-28-5 Rs. 100

Novels of Shobha De

Mrinalini Sebastian This book analyses some of the arguments of major postcolonial thinkers such as Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi K. Bhabha. It discusses the possibility of postcolonial readings of literary texts and presents the novels of Shashi Deshpande in a postcolonial framework. ISBN: 81-7551-078-1 Rs. 500

A Feminist Perspective on the Novels of Shashi Deshpande Y.S. Sunita Reddy The book presents Shashi Deshpande as a feminist writer focussing on all her novels. It reveals Deshpande’s instinctive ability to articulate the feelings of the contemporary, urban, educated upper-middle-class woman who is caught in the transitional period between tradition and modernity. ISBN: 81-7551-103-6 Rs. 400

L. Sonia NIngthoujam Shobha De is a contemporary novelist who presents the modern Indian woman at the centre of her fiction. This woman is bold, daring and ambitious. It is the image of this new woman that Shobha De presents in all her novels. ISBN: 81-7551-171-0 Rs. 400

Shobha De: Critical Studies Jaydipsinh Dodiya Shobha De has emerged as a major novelist on the Indian literary scene. From her first novel, Socialite Evenings, to the recentlypublished autobiographical work Speedpost, she has evolved as a sensitive writer. The book, comprising more than thirty critical essays, makes a pioneering attempt at exploring De’s fictional world that has aroused so much curiosity and interest amongst the readers. ISBN: 81-7551-079-X Rs. 500

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The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee R.K. Dhawan, ed. Bharati Mukherjee is at her best in the depiction of cultural clash between the East and the West. She has indeed become a celebrity for her distinctive approach to expatriatehood as a metaphysical experience of exile. The book, the first of its kind on the novelist, makes a comprehensive attempt at evaluating various aspects of Mukherjee’s fiction and her contribution to the study of immigrant writing and modern fiction. ISBN: 81-7551-010-2 Rs. 400

The Position of Woman in Kamala Markandaya’s Novels Lakshmi Kumari Sharma Kamala Markandaya is known for an authentic portrayal of Indian social milieu and the woman’s position in the Indian society. A study of her female protagonists reveals how the distortions in the economic and social order affect women more adversely than men. Her women emerge out of darkness, throwing off their legacy of humiliation, dependence & resignation, and reaching out for an equitable share of man’s worldly and spiritual good. ISBN: 81-7551-094-3 Rs. 400

The Novels of Kamala Markandaya and Ruth Jhabvala Rekha Jha The book discusses the East-West encounter in all its ramifications in the writings of the two novelists. The study encompasses, adopting a comparative approach, all the major novels including Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire, Possession, A Handful of Rice, Nectar in a Sieve and Ruth Jhabvala’s Esmond in India, A Backward Place, Heat and Dust and Three Continents. ISBN: 81-85218-15-3 Rs. 400

sex and violene and is precursor of modern Indian novel. ISBN: 81-7551-170-2 Rs. 400

Arundhati Roy: The Novelist Extraordinary R.K. Dhawan, ed. Arundhati Roy has emerged as the most significant novelist on the contemporary literary scene. Perhaps no other Indian writer has reached won such enthusiastic response. Her novel The God of Small Things, the Booker Award winner, has been hailed as a modern classic. It is both interesting and rewarding to observe how readers situated in the wider world have responded to the novel. Eminent scholars from America, Canada, England, Italy, Germany, Australia, Sri Lanka, and from all parts of India have contributed to the richness and variety of the volume. ISBN: 81-7551-060-9 Rs. 500

The Fiction of Anita Desai (2 vols.) Suman Bala & D.K. Pabby, ed. Anita Desai is the most popular of the contemporary Indian women novelists. This anthology covers a critical response to the entire corpus of Anita Desai’s fiction—from Cry, the Peacock to the recently-published collection of short stories Diamond Dust. ISBN: 81-7551-126-5 Rs. 1000 per set

The Novels of Anita Desai Usha Bande Anita Desai is the foremost Indian novelist of the post-Independence era. A close reading of her novels reveals that her concern is with the exploration of human psyche. The book is the first study of its kind that assesses her characters in the light of Third Force Psychology. ISBN: 81-85218-01-3 Rs. 400

Form and Vision in the Novels of Anita Desai

Sex and Violence in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya Jyotsna Sahoo Kamala Markandaya is commonly regarded as a traditional novelist who depicts the poor and rustics of rural India. Here is a book that absolutely demolishes this view. It reveals that Markandaya is best in her depiction of

Sandhyarani Dash The book is an interpretative study of Anita Desai’s novels from Cry, the Peacock to Baumgartner’s Bombay. It examines various formal attributes of her novels vis-à-vis their themes and messages. ISBN: 81-7551-000-5 Rs. 200

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Virginia Woolf and Anita Desai A Comparative Study Asha Kanwar Virginia Woolf and Anita Desai are two great artists in the realm of fiction. It is rewarding to investigate into the works of the two authors belonging to different ages & different cultures but having striking similarities. ISBN: 81-85218-07-2 Rs. 100

The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa R.K. Dhawan and Novy Kapadia, ed. The book is a collection of lively and deeply researched essays on the novels of Bapsi Sidhwa. There is multiplicity of themes in her novels, The Crow Eaters, Ice-Candy-Man, The Bride and An American Brat. ISBN: 81-85218-65-X Rs. 400

Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man Rashmi Gaur The the first part by the editor offers a comprehensive introduction to Bapsi Sidhwa and her partition novel Ice-Candy Man along with an in-depth analysis of the text; the second part carries scholarly articles by eminent critics on various aspects of the novel. ISBN: 81-7851-011-1 Rs. 400

Anantha Murthy’s Samskara: A Critical Study Rashmi Gaur In Samskara, a modern classical novel, Anantha Murthy has skilfully portrayed BrahminDalit conflict, problems of sperstitions amongst uneducated Indian villagers, and marginalisation of women in Indian social system. The novel raises some important issues in this context and explores the psyche of the Indian mind. The present volume makes an innovative attempt at explicating the theme and technical aspects of this extraordinary Indian novel. ISBN: 81Rs. 400

The Novels of Mulk Raj Anand R.K. Dhawan, ed. The book provides a critical survey of responses to the novels and short stories of Mulk Raj Anand, regarded as one of the pioneers of the Indian English fiction. In this re-

freshingly new assessment, the attempt is not to label but to elucidate and interpret the fiction of Mulk Raj Anand and assess his contribution to the Indian English fiction. ISBN: 81-85218-63-3 Rs. 400

The World of Malgudi: A Study of R.K. Narayan’s Novels A. Hariprasanna The book is the first attempt to write a fullfledged account of the World of Malgudi as depicted in the novels of Narayan. It takes up for detailed discussion Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma, The Guide, The ManEater of Malgudi, The Vendor of Sweets, A Tiger for Malgudi, The World of Nagaraj and Grandmother’s Tale. ISBN: 81-85218-93-5 Rs. 400

The Use of Myth in R.K. Narayan’s Novels D.S. Dewari The book studies three Narayan novels, The English Teacher, The Man-Eater of Malgudi and The Painter of Signs, in the light of three popular Indian myths—the Savitri-Satyavan myth, the Bhasmasura myth and the SantanuGanga myth. It reveals how Narayan has transformed Indian history and myth into fascinating fiction by the alchemy of his genius. ISBN: 81-7551-100-1 Rs. 300

The Novels of R.K. Narayan Ramesh Dnyate The book is a reappraisal of Narayan’s craft of fiction with special reference to the characterization in Malgudi novels. Finding Western critical parameters inadequate to measure the typical and predetermined characters in Narayan’s novels, the book suggests a viable approach to consider Narayan’s characterization from a new perspective. ISBN: 81-7551-001-3 Rs. 300

Vikram Seth: The Literary Genius Pramod K. Nayar and R.K. Dhawan The volume offers a wide spectrum of critical response by eminent scholars to the entire range of Seth’s writings including The

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Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy and An Unequal Music. ISBN: 81-7851-168-0 Rs. 400

and evaluates his contribution to the rise of Indian writing in English. ISBN: 81-7551-074-9 Rs. 400

Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy: Search for an Indian Identity

The Short Stories of Manjeri Isvaran N. Gopalakrishnan Nair Manjeri S. Isvaran is one of the best-known short story writers of India. His contribution to Indian literature is significant. He is perhaps the only Indian writer of the colonial era to have chosen the ancient medium of short story and an alien language to render indigenous life and Indian experience into an artistically realizable entity. The book is a critical study of the thematic concerns and technical virtuosities of Isvaran’s stories. ISBN: 81-7551-005-6 Rs. 200

Shyam Agarwalla The book is the first full-length study of A Suitable Boy, the novel for which Vikram Seth was awarded the 1994 Commonwealth Writer Prize. This book closely examines the theme and technique of the novel, revealing his penetrating insight and wide knowledge of Indian-English literature, English literature and also the history of India and England. ISBN: 81-85218-97-8 Rs. 200

The Novels of Raja Rao Esha Dey The book makes an in-depth critical study of the fiction of Raja Rao. It makes an illuminating elucidation of all the works of Raja Rao, including Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, The Chessmaster and His Moves and On the Ganga Ghat and Other Stories. ISBN: 81-85218-34-X Rs. 400

The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry Jaydipsinh Dodiya, ed. Rohinton Mistry, an Indian-born novelist settled in Canada, is a powerful chronicler of contemporary social and political life. He shot into fame on being shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel Family Matters. Earlier he published a collection of short stories Tales from Firozsha Baag and the critically-acclaimed novel Such a Long Journey, which was a runner up for the 1991 Booker Prize. The book makes a pioneering attempt at the evaluation of the entire range of Mistry’s fiction. ISBN: 81-7551-046-3 Rs. 300

Manjeri Isvaran: The Man and the Writer John E. Abraham Manjeri S. Isvaran (1910-66) is one of the pioneers of Indian Writing in English. The wide range of his publications includes poems, plays, short stories, translations and criticism. The book makes an exhaustive study of the mind and art of Manjeri Isvaran

Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World: Critical Perspectives Rama Kundu, ed. In the recent years, there has been a revival of interest in Tagore’s fiction, especially the novel The Home and the World. Set on a Bengali zamindar’s estate in 1908, it is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The present book throws fresh light on The Home and the World and adds to our awareness of the intrinsic value of Indian fiction. ISBN: 81-7851-000-6 Rs. 400

Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World: New Dimensions D.K. Pabby and Alpana Neogy, ed. Tagore was a prolific writer and multifaceted genius. Among his major fictional works, the novel The Home and the World (Ghare-Baire) has attained immense popularity in recent years. The first part offers a comprehensive introduction to the novel and an in-depth analysis of the text; the second part carries scholarly articles by eminent critics on various aspects of the novel. ISBN: 81-7851-003-0 Rs. 400

The Novels of Amitav Ghosh R.K. Dhawan, ed. The new Indian writing, published in the 1980s and 1990s, has ushered in a literary renaissance. Amitav Ghosh is one of the most distinguished contemporary Indian novelists. His popularity graph has been rising ever

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since he published his first novel The Circle of Reason in 1986. The book, comprising critical essays by eminent scholars, is a pioneering attempt at the evaluation of the entire range of fiction written by Amitav Ghosh. ISBN: 81-7551-011-0 Rs. 500

Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines:

Critical Perspectives Novy Kapadia, ed. While Amitav Ghosh has written a number of novels, his best known is The Shadow Lines, a novel on the theme of Partition, that has been translated into many languages of the world. The volume aims at an overall assessment of this classic novel of Ghosh. ISBN: 81-7851-001-4 Rs. 500

The Novels of Salman Rushdie G.R. Taneja and R.K. Dhawan, ed. Salman Rushdie has emerged as one of the most powerful novelists of the world. His work, especially Midnight’s Children, is complex and his narrative intricate. The book is a collection of critical papers by international scholars on various aspects of Rushdie’s thematic and technical art. ISBN: 81-85218-61-7 Rs. 400

Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children A Reader’s Companion Tapan Kumar Ghosh The first section introduces Salman Rushdie, the novelist, and his work Midnight’s Children, with an exhaustive commentary on the novel by Tapan Ghosh. The second section, comprising exploratory essays by eminent academics, offers a wide spectrum of views on the modern classic Midnight’s Children and is thus a useful addition to the existing corpus of Rushdie criticism. ISBN: 81-7551-010-3 Rs. 500

Arun Joshi’s Fiction: The Labyrinth of Life Tapan Kumar Ghosh Arun Joshi is one of the distinguished Indian English novelists. His fiction delineates the modernity of human condition and explores some fundamental problems of human existence. The book is a comprehensive study of his fiction including his short stories.

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The Novels of Arun Joshi R.K. Dhawan, ed. The book provides a critical survey of all the novels and short stories of Arun Joshi. It focuses attention not only on Joshi’s thematic concerns but also on his narrative techniques, and more significantly on the psychological overtones of his work. ISBN: 81-85218-62-5 Rs. 400 The Novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya Balram S. Sorot Bhabani Bhattacharya is one of the major Indian novelists who have laid the foundations of the novel in English. The book discusses all his novels and short stories with a focus on the theme of modernity and tradition and the contribution the novelist makes to the technique of fiction-writing. It also makes a comparative assessment of Bhattacharya and R.K. Narayan. ISBN: 81-85218-32-3 Rs. 300 The Novels of Manohar Malgonkar M. Rajagopalachari Malgonkar is one of the most significant Indian novelists writing in English. The book demonstrates the complexity of human existence in his fiction and brings out the novelist’s vision of life. It discusses in detail his novels Distant Drum, Combat of Shadows, The Princes, A Bend in the Ganges, The Devil’s Wind and The Garland Keepers. ISBN: 81-85218-16-1 Rs. 200

Khushwant Singh: The Man and Writer R.K. Dhawan, ed. Khushwant Singh is perhaps India’s best known journalist and critic of life, literature, sex and politics. His novel Train to Pakistan is considered an Indian classic and his latest novel The Company of Women has been hailed as a landmark in the history of Indian English fiction. The present book covers various aspects of the writer’s literary career as also his daring and controversial views, giving new insights into the man and the writer that Khushwant Singh is. ISBN: 81-7551-028-5 Rs. 500

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M.V. Rama Sarma: His Mind and Art K. Venkata Reddy, ed. Divided into three sections, the book makes a critical assessment of M.V. Rama Sarma. Section A contains articles on Shakespeare and Milton, areas of profound interest to Rama Sarma. Section B concerns itself with the themes and techniques of his novels and plays. Section C contains his articles on Milton, Shakespeare and Heywood. ISBN: 81-85218-37-4 Rs. 300

Vivekananda: Speeches & Writings

A Critical Study C.L. Khatri Vivekananda is one of the greatest religious leaders and thinkers of the modern India. The present book is a pioneering study of the speeches and writings of Vivekananda in a literary perspective. It makes a critical evaluation of his prose style and oratorial skill. ISBN: 81-7551-086-2 Rs. 400

Nirad C. Chaudhari The Scholar Extraordinary R.K Dhawan, ed. Nirad Chaudhari, who died on 1 August 1999, at the age of 101, was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. He wrote ten books including the famous work The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. The book is a fitting tribute to his genius. ISBN: 81-7551-087-0 Rs. 400

Indian Poetry Trends and Techniques in Contemporary Indian English Poetry Rama Nair, ed. The anthology makes a survey of the trends and techniques in contemporary Indian English poetry. A critical perspective of the poetic development over the last two decades is essential to promote a greater self-awareness, a more accurate knowledge of native traditions and a greater insight into their modern transformations. A comparative perspective can lead to further insights into the wellknown cultural traits of Indian history and literature such as eclecticism, multilingualism and multi-culturalism.

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The Poetry and Translations of A.K. Ramanujan Rama Nair A.K.Ramanujan holds a unique position in modern Indian poetic scene. His original poetry in English has its roots in his translations. A comparative study of Ramanujan’s translation and his original poetic work in English affirms a contextualisation in terms of themes, motifs and structures. The influence of his translated works on his poetry has been assimulated to such a degree that one can speak of analogies and relational studies. The book attempts a study of this relationship ISBN: 81-7551-119-2 Rs. 300

Six Women Poets: A Cross-Cultural Study Mina Surjit Singh The book examines the works of six representative poets—from India and America— who in their writings reflect a desire for freedom from gender oppression as also from age-old stifling traditions. The book studies cross-culturally the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sarojini Naidu, Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das, Adrienne Rich & Mamta Kalia. ISBN: 81-7551-143-5 Rs. 500

Indian Renaissance and Indian English Poetry Subhas Chandra Saha Indian Renaissance took birth in the 19th century Bengal. Indian English poetry originated from Calcutta. The author discusses and analyses the connections and interactions between the two phenomena and establishes that Indian English poetry originated as an inevitable outcome of the historical situation in India at that particular point of time. ISBN: 81-7551-035-8 Rs. 300

The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra Rabindra K. Swain Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the foremost poets writing in English today. The present book makes a pioneering attempt to trace the socio-cultural forces that have gone into the shaping of the poet’s language and vision. ISBN: 81-7551-085-4 Rs. 400

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Jayanta Mahapatra: The Poet R. Shankar The book shows that a characteristic trait of Jayanta Mahapatra’s poetry is the depiction of India and Hindu religion, with its various rituals and myths. The book argues that Mahapatra is humanist in the trinity of religion, culture and time. In exploring these themes, he makes an indefatigable quest, rendering his poetry a harmonious whole. ISBN: 81-7551-145-1 Rs. 400

Indian Drama Indian Drama Today M. Sarat Babu The book makes an in-depth study of the theme of cultural deformity in its variegated aspects as revealed in the plays of Mohan Rakesh, Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar and Badal Sircar. The focus is on six cultural deformities: gender, social, political, physical, mental and spiritual, and a full-length chapter is devoted to each. ISBN: 81-7551-026-9 Rs. 300

Flowering of Indian Drama: Growth and Development K.V. Reddy and R.K. Dhawan, ed. The book makes an innovative attempt at offering a wide and comprehensive gallery of Indian playwrights, evaluating their significant works. Included in the volume are writers like Tagore, Asif Currimbhoy, Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahasweta Devi and Mahesh Dattani. ISBN: 81-7551-152-4 Rs. 400

Three Indian Playwrights: Tagore, Badal Sircar and Mahasweta Devi R.K. Dhawan, ed. Indian drama in English and regional languages is characterized by a rich variety in themes and technique. Tagore, Sircar and Mahasweta Devi are Bengali writers who have contributed to the growth of Indian drama. The book discusses some major plays by these writers, highlighting their characteristic traits. ISBN: 81-7551-159-1 Rs. 400

New Directions in Indian Drama

Sudhakar Pandey and Freya Barua, ed. The anthology is designed to introduce to a wider audience India’s most important contemporary dramatists Vijay Tendulkar, Badal Sircar and Girish Karnad and to give analytic and critical assessments of their work. ISBN: 81-85218-78-1 Rs. 300

Studies in Contemporary Indian Drama Sudhakar Pandey & Taraporewala, ed. The volume brings together a series of scholarly papers on contemporary Indian drama and theatre. It includes perceptive studies on Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Nissim Ezekiel, Badal Sircar and Mohan Rakesh. ISBN: 81-85218-18-8 Rs. 300

Jayashankar Prasad’s Chandragupta: A Study Sanjeev Kumar The book offers a comparative study of Chandragupta, a play written by Hindi playwright Jayshankar Prasad and also by Bengali writer Dwijendralal Roy. There are several affinities and differences between the two versions of the same play, making great contribution to Indian literature. ISBN: 81-7851-021-9 Rs. 400

The Plays of Mahasweta Devi E. Satyanarayana Mahasweta Devi is one of the few writers in India with an unflinching commitment and passion for the underdog. She is an activistwriter and has been awarded the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary prize in India. The book, while making a close study of the thematic concerns in Mahasweta Devi’s five plays, attempts to show the uniqueness of her dramatic vision and her artistic excellence. ISBN: 81-7551-081-1 Rs. 400

The Plays of Girish Karnad: Critical Perspectives Jaydipsinh Dodiya, ed. Karnad is regarded as one of the three great writers of the contemporary Indian drama, the other two being Vijay Tendulkar and Badal Sircar. His significant plays include Yayati, Tughlaq, Naga-Mandala, Tale-Danda & Hayavadana. The book, comprising more

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than thirty scholarly papers, offers a critical appraisal of Karnad as a dramatist and provides varied perspectives on his major plays. ISBN: 81-7551-061-7 Rs. 500

The Indian Imagination of Girish Karnad P. Dhanavel The book critically examines various themes viz. humanism, identity crisis, literary genetics, condensation and desire for recognition in the plays of Girish Karnad, with a focus on his most representative play Hayavadana. The analysis reveals that Karnad’s plays are steeped in an imagination which is truly Indian in character. ISBN: 81-7551-077-3 Rs. 300

Three Plays of Girish Karnad: A Study in Poetics and Culture Vanashree Tripathi

popular play Ghashiram Kotwal is based on the historical conflict between Nana Phadnavis and his henchman Ghashiram Kotwal. The book offers an exhaustive critical commentary on the play, followed by scholarly essays by eminent scholars. ISBN: 81-7851-008-1 Rs. 400

Vijay Tendulkar’s GhashiramKotwal: Critical Perspectives Vinod Bala Sharma, ed. In the first section, the editor introduces the playwright and his works with a focus on his famous play Ghashiram Kotwal; the second section contains critical perspectives on the play by eminent drama critics. ISBN: 81-7851-002-2 Rs. 400

Mohan Rakesh’s Halfway House Critical Perspectives

The book critically examines Girish Karnad’s concern as a playwright with poetics and culture. It offers a close reading of the three plays—Hayavadana, Tale-Danda and The Fire and the Rain—testifying the playwright’s growth from being an experimenter to a consummate theorist of drama. ISBN: 81-7551-151-6 Rs. 400

Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana: A Critical Study L.S. Gill Hayavadana is one of the best plays of Karnad. The book offers a thorough study of the play covering all aspects. ISBN: 81-7851-020-0 Rs. 400 The Plays of Mahesh Dattani R.K. Dhawan and Tanu Pant, ed. Mahesh Dattani is the foremost Indian English dramatist today. The pioneering study makes an attempt at evaluating the major plays of Dattani in terms of themes and technique. ISBN: 81-7551-160-5 Rs. 400

Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghashiram Kotwal: A Reader’s Companion M. Sarat Babu Vijay Tendulkar has dominated Indian literary scene for more than three decades. His

Subhash Chandra, ed. Mohan Rakesh, recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award twice, was a versatile writer who experimented with many genres: short stories, novels and plays. His plays Aashadh Ka Ek Din, Lehron Ke Rajhans and AadheAdhure lent a new dignity to the Hindi theatre. The present book explores the mystique of Rakesh, taking up Halfway House (AadheAdhure) for a detailed critical analysis. ISBN: 81-7851-004-9 Rs. 500

Women’s Studies Feminism and the Individual Kalpana R.J. The focus of the book is on woman as an individual. It discusses, in context with the given theme, the fiction of Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Shashi Deshpande, Namita Gokhale and Suniti Namjoshi. ISBN: 81-7551-156-7 Rs. 400

Feminism and Family Kalpana R.J. The book discusses the boundaries and methodologies of Feminist Consciousness. It highlights the cultural oppressiveness of the state of motherhood with reference to the novels of Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal and Shashi Deshpande. ISBN: 81-7551-155-9 Rs. 400

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Kalpana R.J. The focus of the book is on women poets who have portrayed the struggle between traditional strictures and raised feminist consciousness of the women today. The poets discussed are: Kamala Das, Sujata Bhatt, Mamta Kalia, Imtiaz Dharker, Suniti Namjoshi and Eunice de Souza. ISBN: 81-7551-157-6 Rs. 400

Neena Arora The book attempts a fresh and revealing comparative study of the selected works of Nayantara Sahgal and Doris Lessing from the feminist stance. Both Lessing and Sahgal depict women suffering due to sexist bias in the patriarchal society, and they envision a world which should be based on equality and harmony between the two sexes. ISBN: 81-85218-31-5 Rs. 300

The Feminine Voice in Indian Fiction

Feminism & American Literature

S.P. Swain The volume highlights feminine voice articulated in the recent fiction by writers like Shashi Deshpande, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Shobha De and Arundhati Roy. The book projects the awakening, ushered in by the feminist movement in India. ISBN: 81-7551-157-6 Rs. 400

R.K. Dhawan, ed. The anthology makes a comprehensive survey of feminism and the woman’s question in terms of contemporary literary writing in America. The focus of the book is on the Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. There are perceptive articles on Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Maria Irene Fornes, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker and Willa Cather. ISBN: 81-7551-025-0 Rs. 300

Feminism and Sexual Poetics

Recent Trends in Women’s Poetry Manju Jaidka The book attempts a survey of some of the important themes and ideas that emerged in women’s poetry of the twentieth century. A close study of the works of five major women writers—Anne Sexton, Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Plath, Kamala Das, Anna Akhmatova—reveals that in each individual poet, the effort is to focus on one main theme which becomes representative of a large concern with the position of women viewed against diverse cultural & social background. ISBN: 81-7551-091-9 Rs. 300 Patterns of Feminist Consciousness in

Indian Women Writers Anuradha Roy The book is a significant comparative study of five selected novels on the basis of different patterns of evolving feminist consciousness depicted in the narratives. It makes a rich contribution to the growing corpus of feminist criticism on the fiction of Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal, Attia Hosain, Rama Mehta and Shashi Deshpande. ISBN: 81-7551-064-1 Rs. 400

Nayantara Sahgal and Doris Lessing:

A Feminist Study in Comparison

Feminism & Modern American Poetry Annamma Joseph The book attempts a critical analysis of the poetry of three significant modern American poets Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich from a feminist perspective. These women poets transcend the conventional literary and ideological norms in order to create a woman-centered universe. The study explores the different routes through which they arrive at a poetics of feminist experience. ISBN: 81-7551-009-9 Rs. 300

Black Women’s Writing: Quest for Identity Y.S. Sharadha Black women’s writing has registered a phenomenal growth in the recent years. Lorraine Hansberry and Ntozake Shange are outstanding black women playwrights whose portraits of black life and culture are characterized by a vision distinctively feminine and different from that of many black male dramatists of the period. The focus is on a reassessment of black literature in an attempt to discover multiple black feminine styles. ISBN: 81-7551-038-2 Rs. 400

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Women’s Voices: The Novels of Indian Women Writers K. Meera Bai The book is a brilliant study of feminine sensibility at work in the fiction of Indian women writers, with a focus on Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal and Ruth Jhabvala. ISBN: 81-7551-004-8 Rs. 300

A Feminist Perspective on the Fiction of Virginia Woolf Sulabha Naik The book offers a feminist critique on the fiction of Virginia Woolf, one of the most significant novelists of the 20th century. Virginia Woolf is the first major novelist in English who deals with what may now be termed as the ‘woman’s question.’ The book makes an assesssment of the contribution made by Virginia Woolf to the realm of English fiction, from the feminist viewpoint. ISBN: 81-7551-052-8 Rs. 200

Commonwealth Literature Essays on the New Literatures R.K. Dhawan, ed. The volume offers new insights into the fiction of Commonwealth writers, especially Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapur, Shashi Tharoor and Chinua Achebe. ISBN: 81-7551-139-7 Rs. 400

New Commonwealth Writing: A Critical Response

rica; Derek Walcott of West Indies; Tagore, A.K. Ramanujan, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, T.P. Kailasam, Manoranjan Das, Badal Sircar, Salman Rushdie, Chaman Nahal and S. Radhakrishnan of India. ISBN: 81-85218-7-0 Rs. 400

Recent Commonwealth Literature Dhawan, Dhamija, Shrivastava, ed. The book studies elaborately the genesis and bearing of Commonwealth literature. It contains critical studies on Rushdie, Anand, Arun Joshi, M. Malgonkar, R.K. Narayan, Nina Sibal, Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal, Ruth Jhabvala, Nergis Dalal, Rama Mehta, Keki Daruwalla, Earle Birney, Judith Wright, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh MacLennan, Lamming, Naipaul, John Masters, Soyinka, Achebe, Ngugi, Plomer and Flora Nwapa. ISBN: 81-85218-09-9 Rs. 800 (2 vols.)

Commonwealth Writing: A Study in Expatriate Experience R.K Dhawan and L.S.R.K. Sastry, ed. The first section defines and discusses the theme of expatriation and immigration as dealt in Commonwealth writing. This is followed by critical studies on specific writers: Vikram Seth, Ruth Jhabvala, Bharati Mukherjee, Anita Desai, Attia Hosain (India), Udaya Meddegama (Sri Lanka), Farhana Sheikh (Pakistan), George Lamming, Naipaul (West Indies) & Margaret Laurence (Canada) ISBN: 81-85218-82-X Rs. 300

Centering the Margins:

M.L. Pandit A collection of essays in the areas of Indian, West Indian, Nigerian and Canadian writing, the book includes a special section on Salman Rushdie. An exclusive interview with Salman Rushdie is published for the first time. ISBN: 81-7551-007-2 Rs. 400

Critical Studies in Commonwealth Literature K. Venkata Reddy Chapters are devoted to specific writers like Katherine Mansfield of New Zealand; Margaret Atwood and Margaret Laurence of Canada; David Williamson of Australia; Wole Soyinka and Nadine Gordimer of Af-

Perspectives on Literatures in English from India, Africa, Australia Cynthia vanden Driesen The book, comprising 11 perceptive essays, reveals the new directions postcolonial criticism is taking. The author confronts the most complex writers: R.K. Narayan in India, Achebe in Africa, Patrick White in Australia. She focuses on women’s studies in the postcolonial context through her study of Emecheta and on immigration and multiculturalism through her essay on Asian writing in Australia. ISBN: 81-85218-99-4 Rs. 300

Commentaries on Commonwealth

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S. Ramaswamy This volume of essays covers a wide range of subjects. It has articles on Obi Egbuna (Africa), Douglas Stewart, Patrick White, Ray Lawler (Australia), George Woodcock, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay (Canada), Claude McKay (West Indies), Arthur Jawodimbari (New Zealand). ISBN: 81-85218-79-X Rs. 300

The study makes an inquiry into Naipaul’s fiction as an experimental recreation of the third-world consciousness. It is one of the pioneering studies on the mind and art of Naipaul. It has detailed chapters on The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira, The Mimic Men, A House for Mr. Biswas, Mr. Stone, The Knight’s Companion, Guerrillas, A Bend in the Ganges and In a Free State. ISBN: 81-85218-12-9 Rs. 300

Commentaries on Commonwealth Fiction

The Novels of V.S. Naipaul: Quest for Order and Identity

Poetry and Drama

S. Ramaswamy This volume of essays on Commonwealth fiction covers a wide range of subjects. It has articles on Wole Soyinka (Africa), Henry Handel Richardson, Patrick White (Australia), Hugh MacLennan, Morley Callaghan, Anne Hebert (Canada), Wilson Harris (West Indies), Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand), James Goonewardane (Sri Lanka). ISBN: 81-85218-80-3 Rs. 300

N. Rama Devi The book analyzes Naipaul’s quest for order and identity in his novels with the third world setting, namely The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira, A House for Mr. Biswas, The Mimic Men, In a Free State, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River and A Way in the World. ISBN: 81-85218-006-4 Rs. 300

Caribbean Literature

The Fiction of Margaret Laurence and Anita Desai: Discourse in Alienation

The West Indian Fiction R.K. Dhawan, ed. West Indian literature is best known for the fiction it has produced. George Lamming, Wilson Harris, Samuel Selvon and V.S. Naipaul are amongst the most significant novelists of the twentieth century. The volume highlights the contribution made by these writers and also discusses the work of other writers including Jean Rhys, Roger Mais, Cyril Dabydeen and Jamaica Kincaid. ISBN: 81-7551-044-7 Rs. 400

V.S. Naipaul: A Literary Response to the Nobel Laureate Suman Bala, ed. Naipaul is one of the best-known Englih novelists of the modern times; his popularity reached its zenith when he received the Nobel Prize for literature. The volume, a collection of recent essays on his writings, aims at paying the fittest tribute to the great novelist. ISBN: 81-7551-136-2 Rs. 500

The Novels of V.S. Naipaul Shashi Kamra

Canadian Literature

D.K. Pabby The volume on the fiction of Canadian writer Margaret Laurence and Indian English writer Anita Desai is conceived as a project in comparative framework. It interrogates and critiques significant questions relating to identity, ethnicity, multiculturalism, immigration, globalization, alienation and affirmation that confront the Canadian and Indian society and the literary world.. ISBN: 81-7551-158-3 Rs. 500

Trishanku and Other Writings Uma Parameswaran Trishanku is a cycle of poems consisting of about fifteen voices that cumulatively reflect the first quarter century of Indo-Canadian experience in Manitoba. ISBN: 81-7551-019-6 Rs. 300

Land Where the Trees Talk and Other Plays Rahul Varma The four plays included in this volume show the evolution of Rahul Varma’s art and his commitment to challenging the inequities

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imposed on new immigrants in Canada. In the title play, he enters new but related territory the encroachment of commercial technology on the rights of the First Nations. ISBN: 81-7551-022-6 Rs. 400

Five or Six Characters in Search of Toronto and Other Plays Rana Bose Rana Bose is an intellectual dissenter. All his plays highlight the theme of protest, not specific injustices or individual incidents of suffering so much as the systemic shortcomings that give rise to and perpetuate an unjust society. His plays have a Canadian setting but their implications have global relevance. ISBN: 81-7551-021-8 Rs. 300

Sons Must Die and Other Plays Uma Parameswaran Sons Must Die and Other Plays reflects both the evolution of the Indo-Canadian community and the evolution of the writer. At one level, these plays deal with the demands and experiences of such universals as motherhood, bhakti, transplantation etc. while at the level of specifics, they delineate the growth of theatre in the Indo-Canadian community. ISBN: 81-7551-020-4 Rs. 300 Multiculturalism: Canada and India R.K. Dhawan and D.K. Pabby, ed. Immigrant literature, native writing and cross-cultural studies are the upcoming areas of contemporary Canadian writing and these truly represent the face of multicultural Canada. The rich diversity has similarity with literary and cultural scenario in India. The book makes a comparative study of the rich interracial, ethnic literatures of the two countries. ISBN: 81-7551-166-4 Rs. 400

Commentaries on Canadian Literature S. Ramaswamy Contemporary Canadian literature has received a worldwide response. The book offers detailed commentaries on the major Canadian texts and authors—a book that really helps to understand and appreciate Canadian literature. ISBN: 81-7551-173-7 Rs. 500

India in Canadian Imagination R.K. Dhawan, D.K. Pabby and S.S. Sharma The book explores the heritage of Indian thought and the image of India depicted in Canadian literature. Writers like Uma Parameswaran, Rohiton Mistry, Anita Rau Badami and Shauna Singh Baldwin have constructed an image of India in their works as they imagine it to be. The book adds to the literature of Indian diaspora. ISBN: 81-7551-138-9 Rs. 400

Canadian Literature Today R.K. Dhawan, ed. The volume contains essays on Nature in Canadian poetry, the poems of Irving Layton, the plays of Robertson Davies, the autobiographies of Claire Martin and Sharan-Jeet Shan, the literary criticism of George Whalley and the novels of Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, Vassanji, Alice Munro, Marie Clair Blais, Joan Barfoot, Beatrice Culleton, Margaret Atwood and Rudy Wiebe. ISBN: 81-85218-95-1 Rs. 400

Perspectives on Indo-Canadian Studies Jacob George, ed. The twenty-three articles in this volume present the varied encounters of the colonial, migratory, cross-cultural, constitutional and multilingual kind which forge the identity of India and Canada. Such an attempt highlights the multicultural mosaic of present-day Canada and India. ISBN: 81-7551-105-2 Rs. 400

Perspectives on Canadian Fiction Sudhakar Pandey, ed. The volume contains exploratory critical studies on various aspects of Canadian fiction. Feminism and women’s writing constitute the bulk of the volume. Writers like Margaret Atwood, Sinclair Ross, Sally Morgan and Rudy Wiebe are discussed with reference to specific texts. ISBN: 81-85218-77-3 Rs. 400

Australian Literature Diaspora: The Australasian Experience

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Cynthia vanden Driesen & Ralph Crane, ed. The perennially engaging theme of diaspora has acquired an increasing, even an alarming resonance in the contemporary world. This collection of writings from Australia, New Zealand, India and Singapore straddles disciplines ranging from Literature, Media, and the Social Sciences to Computing and Library Studies. The medley of voices combine to illuminate a topic which must surely be one of the most challenging in current intellectual debates the world over. It is aerated also with insightful contributions from creative artists. The varied issues are probed with unusual depth and perspicacity, partly because while some of the contributors are recognized experts in the field, others are exciting new talents testing their strengths in the field of international scholarship. ISBN: 81-7551-176-1 Rs. 900

Multiculturalism in Australian Literature R.K. Dhawan, ed. Australian society, like American and Canadian, is characterized by multiculturalism. Contemporary Australian literature is quite representative of this quality. The volume contains indepth studies of various literary works written by Asian-Australian writers and other works written by white Australians who are truly multicultural. ISBN: 81-7551-159-1 Rs. 400

Austral-Asian Encounters: From Literature and Women’s Studies to Politics and Tourism Cynthia Driesen & Satendra Nandan, ed. This collection of papers signals the emergence of innovative developments in Australian Studies. In the area of cultural theory some of the brightest talents from Australia, New Zealand and India theorize the fresh insights emerging through exploration of the commonalties of the shared colonial and postcolonial experience of these regions. The addition of perspectives from New Zealand to this Second-World/Third-World dialogue is another of the highlights of this volume. While on the literary scene new figures move into focus, fresh developments in other disci-

plines are highlighted: politics, diplomacy, tourism and even science show interactions across a whole range of areas. ISBN: 81-7551-131-1 Rs. 700 Australian Literature Today R.K Dhawan and David Kerr, ed. The book includes essays that deal with some significant texts and themes in Australian writing. Writers like Patrick White, David Malouf, Peter Carey, C.J. Koch, Christopher Brennan and Vincent Buckley are discussed with reference to specific texts. ISBN: 81-85218-70-6 Rs. 400

States of Imagination: Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Australian and Southern Asian Literature John McLaren The nation states of Asia and the South Pacific that were formerly ruled by Britain or the United States have in common their colonial past and the civil institutions inherited from it, the widespread use of the English language and the problem of building new nations amid cultural, ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity. This study examines the ways writers in English have dealt with these problems in India, Pakistan, Malayasia, Singapore, Philippines and Australia. ISBN: 81-7551-120-6 Rs. 500

New Directions in Australian Studies Cynthia Driesen and Adrian Mitchell This collection of papers refracts new trends in Australian studies over a range of disciplines—literature, cultural theory, education, women’s studies, children’s studies. Focussing on the innovative and the creative, these papers articulate perceptive insights from several eminent Australian academics and also record the burgeoning interest of Asian scholars in Australian culture. ISBN: 81-7551-084-6 Rs. 700

Australian Poetry and Fiction R.K. Dhawan, ed. In the recent years, a number of Australian writers have received international recognition: Patrick White, Peter Carey, A.D. Hope, Les Murray, Judith Wright, David Malouf and Elizabeth Jolley. Also, Australian women

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writers have produced sufficient work to merit worldwide attention. The volume, comprising critical responses, amply testifies to the view that present-day Australian writing has acquired a breadth and diversity that it did not possess before. ISBN: 81-7551-032-3 Rs. 300

Australian Literature and Indian Literature: Studies in Mutual Response David Kerr and R.K. Dhawan, ed. While the first section has scholarly papers by eminent Indian academics on contemporary Australian literature, the second section has scholarly papers by Australian academics on Indian English literature. The book contains illuminating studies on Patrick White, A.D. Hope, Judith Wright, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, R.K. Narayan, Nayantara Sahgal, Shashi Deshpande, Upamanyu Chatterjee and Nissim Ezekiel. ISBN: 81-85218-24-2 Rs. 400

cal studies on prominent writers like Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi, Alex La Guma, J.P. Clark, Alan Paton, Cyprian Ekwensi, Gabriel Okara, Camara Laye, Flora Nwapa, Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing and Bessie Head. ISBN: 81-85218-83-8 Rs. 400 Indian Response to African Writing A. Ramakrishna Rao, C.R.V. Rao, ed. The articles included in this volume cover various aspects of African writing—cultural, generic and theoretical. Evaluations of Achebe, Soyinka, Ngugi and other major African writers bring to central focus the Indian reader’s interaction with the African texts. ISBN: 81-85218-71-4 Rs. 300

Ngugi’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathy: A Reader’s Companion Nandita Sinha, ed. The Trial of Dedan Kimathy is an important African protest play. It is based on historical facts and depicts how Kenya won its indeA.D. Hope: Questions of Poetic Strength pendence through the sacrifices of heroes like Dedan Kimathy. The present book offers a Walter Tonetto comprehensive study of the play, covering The book makes a detailed discussion of the thematic and technical aspects. poetic quality of major works of A.D. Hope, ISBN: 81-7851-013-8 Rs. 400 a leading Australian poet. The study places Hope as a precursor of a genius that has imAfrican Poetry and Drama bibed its possibilities from the spirit of land Shyam S. Agarwalla, ed. and people. The volume represents first the poets, secISBN: 81-85218-74-9 Rs. 400 ondly the playwrights, and thirdly all regions of Africa and the diaspora. Particular emphaNew Zealand Literature sis is placed on Nigerian gender poetry, New Zealand Literature Today Yoruba Theatre, Eastern African TraditionalR.K Dhawan and Walter Tonetto, ed. ism, African-American movement and AfriThe book is a pioneering attempt to foster can-Canadian writing. reader’s interest in New Zealand literature ISBN: 81-7551-070-6 Rs. 400 and to highlight its significance as a major African Fiction component of World literature. It has exhausShyam S. Agarwalla, ed. tive critical studies on Katherine Mansfield, All African writing is at once a literary piece, Frank Sargeson, Maurice Gee, Janet Frame a social protest and medium of political reand Keri Hulme. assertion. All the contributors to the volume ISBN: 81-85218-69-2 Rs. 400 share the same objective while examining the African Literature works of writers like Achebe, Ngugi, Ayi African Literature Today Kwei Armah, Ben Okri and Gabriel Okara. R.K. Dhawan, ed. The book also highlights the fast-growing The book gives a panoramic look at the conwomen’s writing and discusses work of temporary African literature. It includes genwomen writers like Nadine Gordimer, Buchi eral discussions on African writing and critiEmecheta, Mariama Ba and Ama Ata Aidoo.

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Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story: A Critical Study

South Asian Responses to Chinua Achebe

Nandita Sinha Gordimer, the Nobel Laureate, has written the famous novel My Son’s Story which offers a graphic picture of anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. The book offers a detailed analysis of the novel and opens up rich insights into Gordimer’s mind and art. ISBN: 81-7851-018-9 Rs. 400

B. Lindfors & B. Kothandaraman, ed. The book is an anthology of critical studies on the novels of Chinua Achebe. It provides a critical survey of Achebe’s fiction, especially his social obligations as a writer. ISBN: 81-85218-66-8 Rs. 400

The Novels of Wole Soyinka M. Rajeshwar Wole Soyinka is the only African writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His fictional, dramatic and poetical works are representative of African reality and sensibility today. The book is a perceptive study of Soyinka’s fictional heroes in their role as leaders of the struggle against colonial and neo-colonial forces. ISBN: 81-85218-21-8 Rs. 200

The Plays of Wole Soyinka: A Socio-Psychological Study M. Pushpa Wole Soyinka, the black African writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. The book makes a socio-psychological study of his protagonists who are caught in the web of conflict between will and tradition. This is evident in his plays like The Road, Death and the King’s Horseman, Kongi’s Harvest, The Swamp Dwellers and The Lion and the Jewel. ISBN: 81-7551-051-X Rs. 400

Chinua Achebe: A Study of His Novels S.A. Khayyoom Chinua Achebe, the doyen of African writing, is the major exponent of modern African novel. Beginning with the advent of the European power, his novels span a series of political crises that beset Nigeria, the collapse of the native power structures in Things Fall Apart, total subjugation of the natives and the establishment of colonial power in Arrow of God, transfer of power to the native elite in No Longer at Ease, fall of the first Republic in A Man of the People and the failure of the military regime in Anthills of the Savannah.

The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah K. Damodar Rao Armah is an articulate spokesman of African history and identity. In his fiction, there is a true fusion of individual and communal welfare, national realities and pan-African ideal, contemporary situation and historical vision. All his major works, including The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Fragments, Why Are We So Blest, and The Healers, are comprehensively discussed. ISBN: 81-85218-75-7 Rs. 300

English Literature Shifting Paradigms: Essays on Literature and Theory A. Raghu The volume stands out for its astonishing thematic range—from Advaita to postmodernism, from Philip Sidney to Nissim Ezekiel, from pornography to nation theory, from Manonmaniya Sundaram Pillai to George Bernard Shaw, from Indian Writing in English to Australian literature, from the life of C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar to the love of W.B. Yeats for Maud Gonne. ISBN: 81-7551-175-3 Rs. 400

Post-War English Novel: A Study in Humanism Rudra Prasad Mahto The novel today stands around a humanistic concept of the world. The present book deals with the fiction of William Golding, John Wain, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and Angus Wilson who share an anxiety about man and his position in the world. ISBN: 81-7551-112-5 Rs. 400

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The Jew in Literature Sanjeev Kumar The book makes a comparative study of the treatment of the Jew in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and Arnold Wesker’s The Merchant. It enhances our awareness of racial literature that defends marginalized sections of society. ISBN: 81-7551-164-8 Rs. 400

English Language and Literature Teaching Wadgaonkar, Sawant, Gandhi, ed. The book focuses attention on some significant aspects of language & literature teaching such as grammar, phonology, teaching techniques, stylistics and approaches to literature. It critically examines the role of language in evaluating and appreciating literature. The book covers a wide range of subjects from the grammatical items to classroom-tested principles and methods of teaching. ISBN: 81-7551-069-2 Rs. 400

Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook: A Critical Study Tapan K. Ghosh Feminism is the most significant cultural and literary movement today. Lessing’s The Golden Notebook is a major literary work that has contributed immensely to the area of feminism, highlighting women’s identity. The book offers a detailed commentary on the text. ISBN: 81-7551-174-5 Rs. 500

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: A Reader’s Companion Santwana Haldar Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, now considered a novel of ideas, has made a great contribution to the women’s writings. The present book offers a serious study on the theme, technique and narrative of the novel, highlighting its significance as a classic. ISBN: 81-7851-012-X Rs. 400

The Novels of Huxley and Hemingway Sanjukta Dasgupta The book makes a comparative study of the works of the British novelist Huxley and the

American novelist Hemingway. The novels examined are Huxley’s Those Barren Leaves, Eyeless in Gaza and Island, and Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea. ISBN: 81-7551-002-1 Rs. 300

The Novels of Evelyn Waugh A. Clement Waugh is one of the prominent men of letters of the twentieth century. The book is a warm and perceptive analysis of his major novels in terms of the quest motif. It devotes a chapter each to Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Men at Arms, Officers & Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender. ISBN: 81-85218-89-7 Rs. 400

Ivy Compton-Burnett and English Domestic Novel T. Asoka Rani Ivy Compton-Burnett, a significant twentieth century novelist, follows the tradition of Domestic Novel in England. The book traces the development of this form of fiction from the eighteenth century in a chronological order, evaluating the contributions of the major figures in the field. It gives in-depth analyses of all the twenty novels of Ivy ComptonBurnett, focussing attention on their features in common with the standard masterpieces as well as on the points of deviation. ISBN: 81-85218-60-9 Rs. 400

The Novels of Joseph Conrad V.T. Girdhari Joseph Conrad is considered, by common consent, one of the most significant novelists of the world. Various interpretations of his work have been offered by scholars, leading to stimulating discussions. The book presents Conrad, not as a pessimist or a nihilist, but as a positive philosopher having infinite faith in human existence. ISBN: 81-7551-043-9 Rs. 400

Joseph Conrad’s Fiction Suman Bala The book makes an exhaustive study of existential humanism in the novels of Joseph Conrad in the light of modern existential theories propounded by Camus and Sartre.

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Such an approach makes the reading of Conrad’s novels more rewarding and brings out the full scope of Conrad’s art and meaning, not sufficiently apprehended hitherto. ISBN: 81-7076-029-1 Rs. 400

Kipling’s Vision Sukeshi Kamra Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Laureate, is a significant figure in the history of the English novel. The book shows that in analysing and presenting the moral and spiritual abyss within man, Kipling was attempting to do something rather new with fiction, hundred years ago. The book presents Kipling, popularly regarded as a prophet and a seer, as an existential humanist. ISBN: 81-85218-04-8 Rs. 200

Fictional Theories and Three English Novels Asha Kanwar The book deals with the fictional theories of two English critics, Arnold Kettle and Raymond Williams and the application of these theories to the three great English novels, namely, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch and Tess of the D’Urbervilles. ISBN: 81-85218-23-4 Rs. 400

The Novels of Virginia Woolf B. Sudipta This study makes an assessment of the novels of Virginia Woolf, including Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. It investigates into a new area of ‘group-consciousness’ through which the novelist offers a unique vision of the world. ISBN: 81-85218-14-5 Rs. 400 Graham Greene: Language and Style K. Durga Bhavani The book demonstrates and describes the ways in which linguistic techniques can be applied to a literary text. A practical analysis of Greene’s style with reference to his three novels, namely The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter and Doctor Fischer of Geneva, leads to a deeper perception of the novelist’s modes of literary expression. ISBN: 81-7551-066-8 Rs. 300

The Novels of Graham Greene P.N. Pandit The book makes an extensive study of the impact of childhood on adult life, a recurrent theme in the fiction of Graham Greene. Indeed a host of characters emanate from Greene’s childhood traumas and memories anti-heroes with dual personalities obsessed with a sense of failure and sexual guilt. ISBN: 81-85218-17-X Rs. 400

Thomas Hardy’s Novels: A Feminist Perspective Isam M. Shihada The book aims at studying the feminist aspects of Thomas Hardy’s major novels. A close analysis of his novels like Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the D'Urbervilles reveals that Hardy may be considered a liberal humanist and a true precursor of the modern feminist movement. ISBN: 81-7551-095-1 Rs. 300

Thomas Hardy: A Collection of Critical Essays Subhash Chandra, ed. This anthology offers a multipolar view of Hardy as a novelist, poet and dramatist. A salient feature of the book is the in-depth studies of Hardy’s major novels—Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Return of the Native, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge. ISBN: 81-7551-037-4 Rs. 400

The English Drama K.S. Iyer, ed. The English drama has a rich and long tradition spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the most modern. The volume includes articles on outstanding figures in theatre— Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sheridan, Congreve, Shaw, Galsworthy, Beckett, Pinter, Osborne, Eliot, Robert Bolt. ISBN: 81-7551-080-3 Rs. 400

Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century N.M. Aston, ed. The volume brings together a series of scholarly papers on William Shakespeare who is

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regarded the greatest dramatist of the world. A special feature of the book is perceptive analyses of Indian responses to Shakespeare, assessing his position in the 21st century. ISBN: 81-7551-034-X Rs. 300

Shakespeare: New Dimensions K. Dwarakanath The book explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare. It approaches Shakespeare’s plays from both literary and linguistic point of view. The study focuses on the four soul-stirring tragedies, namely Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth. ISBN: 81-7551-072-2 Rs. 500

Harold Pinter Pradip Lahiri In the plays of Harold Pinter, the amazing potentiality of the verbal-visual projection has been very effectively demonstrated. The book examines how Pinterian absurdistic drama works on us through its dialogue design, showing the playwright’s deeper insight into his characters. ISBN: 81-7551-012-9 Rs. 300 Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist: A Reader’s Companion Santwana Haldar Accidental Death of an Anarchist, by the Nobel Laureate writer Dario Fo, is a modern classic play. A satire on police in Italy, it makes a significant contribution to theatre and drama. The book offers a detailed commentary and critical evaluation of the play. ISBN: 81-7851-014-6 Rs. 400 Goldsmith and Sentimental Comedy B.S. Pathania The book makes a close and systematic examination of Goldsmith’s comedies in the context of sentimental comedy which was a popular form of drama in the eighteenth century. This book is a study of the unsentimentalism of Goldsmith as a playwright. ISBN: 81-85218-00-5 Rs. 400 Ben Jonson: His Dramatic Art K. Venkata Reddy The book makes a close and objective study of Jonson’s dramatic theory and practice re-

lated to his comedies with a view to showing that Jonson is essentially a dramatic artist. ISBN: 81-85218-86-2 Rs. 400 Romantic Drama and Charles Lamb M.N. Chatterjee The book seeks a re-appraisal of the English Romantic period in the context of drama. It focusses on Charles Lamb who etched his name as a critic of Shakespearean Tragedy and Restoration Comedy. ISBN: 81-7551-049-8 Rs. 300

G.B. Shaw: A Critical Response Sudhakar Pandey & Freya Barua, ed. The book comprises scholarly wide-ranging, critical papers on Shaw’s plays, esp. Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Saint Joan and Arms and the Man. ISBN: 81-85218-36-6 Rs. 300

George Bernard Shaw Vinod Bala Sharma The book evaluates Shaw’s prefaces and plays as works of literature. These reveal Shaw as an artist-philosopher and a prophetbiologist. ISBN: 81-85218-20-X Rs. 300

Samuel Beckett Nishi Chawla Samuel Beckett, best known for his play Waiting for Godot, is one of the foremost writers of the twentieth century. Nishi Chawla explores in her study Beckett’s inescapable involvement with the fundamental issues of existence and of identity. ISBN: 81-7551-063-3 Rs. 400

Romanticism: A Reconsideration N.M. Aston, ed. Romanticism heralded a new era of golden age for mankind. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Lamb and Hazlitt are the true representatives of the romantic movement. The volume makes a fresh evaluation of ‘romanticism’ as a concept and its application to significant works of the romantic era. ISBN: 81-7551-068-4 Rs. 400

Robert Browning: Character and Motive in The Ring and the Book P. Hannah Padma

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Robert Browning is the most significant poet of the Victorian era. His magnum opus The Ring and the Book is based on a Roman murder case. Choosing monologue and blank verse as his medium, Browning takes care that each version of the talk has an authenticity in tune with the motives of the speaker. ISBN: 81-7551-023-4 Rs. 200 Robert Browning: The Later Poetry Nandita Sinha The period following The Ring and the Book has been ignored by critics on the assumption that Browning’s best work had been completed by then. The astonishing range and versatility of the later poems are a refutation of this view and the book establishes the importance of the mature phase in assessment of Browning’s artistic development. ISBN: 81-85218-72-2 Rs. 300

W.B. Yeats Rajeshwari Patel W.B. Yeats occupies a central place in modern literature—so central that one cannot understand the age without a proper appreciation of his work. ISBN: 81-85218-13-7 Rs. 400

W.H. Auden: The Commissar and the Yogi M.K. Raju Auden’s poetic career spanning four significant decades was virtually synonymous with progress of poesy in English. Igniting the poetic revolution at Oxford, he fueled and sustained it by sheer force of his genius. If the English Auden drew upon psychological theories and Marxian dialectics for his poetic ideas, the American Auden structured his long poems on existential ethics. The book makes an in-depth study of this paradox in his art as in his personality. ISBN: 81-85218-25-0 Rs. 400

Milton Today M.V. Rama Sarma The study deals with Milton’s justification of God’s ways to men as expressed in his three major poems Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained. The last chapter shows the relevance of Milton’s political

ideology and philosophical views to the present-day world, especially India. ISBN: 81-7551-093-5 Rs. 200

Milton and the Indian Epic Tradition M.V. Rama Sarma The book is an attempt to place Paradise Lost in the epic tradition of Ramayana and the Mahabharata. ISBN: 81-85218-11-0 Rs. 300

Travel, Autobiography and D.H. Lawrence A.B. Apana The book examines the nature of travel writing of the Twenties and Thirties and focuses on D.H. Lawrence. In the first four chapters, the book examines the nature of travel writing, the nature of the traveller, the uniquely idiosyncratic style of travel writing, and finally brings together these various elements in a chapter on autobiography. The book is a novel approach to the study of Lawrence. ISBN: 81-7551-053-6 Rs. 400

American Literature Ethnic Literatures of America Somdatta Mandal and Himadri Lahiri, ed. The stupendous volume is devoted to diasporic writing in America and intercultural issues in contemporary ethnic literatures of the States. The essays deal with wide range of themes—Theoretical Paradigms, Indian American, Chinese American, African American Voices and Intercultural Studies. ISBN: 81-7551-163-X Rs. 600

Afro-American Literature R.K. Dhawan, ed. Afro-American writing is essentially a human and social document which deals with the experience of Americans of African ancestry. A section of the book is devoted to Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize winner, and has a chapter each on The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved and Jazz. Other writers discussed include the novelists Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Ralph Ellison, Alex Haley, and the dramatists Alice Childress, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange and Lorraine Hansberry.

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New Directions in American Literature K.S. Iyer, ed. This collection of articles is divided into four parts: general, poetry, novel and drama. While the introductory section provides a general introduction to American literature today, subsequent sections include exploratory papers on Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Melville, Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor and Edward Albee. ISBN: 81-7551-130-3 Rs. 400

Indian Views on American Literature A.A. Mutalik-Desai, ed. The book presents critical response of Indian scholars to the contemporary American literature. With a diversity of themes and approaches, the essays in this anthology exhibit the scholars’s awareness and perceptions of all the cross-currents in the Anglo-American world of academia, literary studies and the latest Theory Wars. The essays pay a discerning attention to American poetry, fiction and drama with special consideration of AfroAmerican writers. ISBN: 81-7551-054-4 Rs. 400

Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S. Anil Raina, Manju Jaidka, et al, ed. The authors discussed include Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Rudolfo Anaya, Bernard Malamud, Amy Tan, D’Arcy McNickle, Alexei Sherman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Claude Mckay. The anthology has essays on Afro-American, Native American, and Asian American literature. ISBN: 81-7551-124-9 Rs. 500

Asian American Writing (3 vols.) Somdatta Mandal, ed. Asian American literature reflects the Asian experience in the United States—right from the beginning of Chinese immigration in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. As both social document and mirror of memory, myth, dreams and desires, Asian American literature provides unique access to understanding the social history and sensibilities of this emerging minority group. This anthology

in three volumes tries to break new ground by emphasizing upon the Asian American experience in all possible genres—interviews, creative writing, criticism, mass media. Writers of Indian diaspora—Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Meena Alexander and Jhumpa Lahiri are widely discussed. ISBN: 81-7551-096-X Rs. 1200

American Literature Today Suman Bala, ed. The writings of Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Sylvia Plath, Kate Chopin, Toni Morrison and some others are recognized throughout the world as masterpieces of world literature. The book, a collection of 26 essays, attempts to review and evaluate contemporary American literature. ISBN: 81-7076-067-1 Rs. 400

Indian Perspectives on the U.S.: Literature and Foreign Affairs P.M. Kamath, A.A. Mutalik-Desai, ed. The essays deal with American literary figures: Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Flannery O’Connor, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Ayn Rand, Norman Mailer, J.D. Salinger, Jo-Anne Akalaitis and Rechel Rosenthal. ISBN: 81-85218-76-5 Rs. 400

American Literature and Indian English Literature: Studies in Cultural Contiguity A.M Geevarghese, Varghese John, ed. The volume brings together articles on two areas of literature generally perceived as separate identities. The essays cover perspectives on American Literature and Indian Literature, and often lead to scholarly discourses on poetry and poetics, fiction, women’s studies, drama and dramaturgy. ISBN: 81-7551-065-X Rs. 400

American Studies in India P.M. Kamath, ed. The importance of American Studies is increasingly being realized and it is growing into a major area of study and research. American Studies is essentially a multidisciplinary program built on subjects drawn

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from Humanities and Social Sciences. The volume is a collection of fourteen essays by Americanists in the field of literature, history, politics and foreign affairs. ISBN: 81-85218-84-6 Rs. 400

American Literature and Culture Laxmi Parasuram, ed. The book represents a wide spectrum of critical responses by eminent scholars to American literature and culture. The first section is devoted to critical studies on major writers like Ernest Hemingway, Salinger, Norman Mailer, Pearl Buck, Sam Shepard and Arthur Miller. The second section covers subjects like multiculturalism, Americanism, films, crime fiction and the woman question as handled by Toni Morrison and Maria Forbes. ISBN: 81-85218-94-3 Rs. 400

Contemporary American Drama Abha Singh The twentieth century American drama has registered a phenomenal growth. The fundamental contention of the book is that Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee map the contours of the contemporary American consciousness. ISBN: 81-7551-045-5 Rs. 400

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Edward Albee: Towards a Typology of Relations Rana Nayar The book offers new insights into conceptual understanding of a subject as complex as relationships in human life. The author explores the psycho-dynamics of human relations as evidenced in the plays of Edward Albee, one of the greatest American dramatists. ISBN: 81-7551-140-0 Rs. 500

The Plays of Lillian Hellman Tenneti Nagamani The plays of Lillian Hellman have been approached mostly from the social, political and psychological angles. The book, divided into ten chapters, seeks to examine her plays from a moral point of view since Hellman writes with a sense of righteous indignation and what is more, interprets both action and failure in terms of good and evil. ISBN: 81-7551-102-8 Rs. 400

Jewish American Writers & Intellectual Life in America

D. Venkateswarlu The book establishes a perspective on some major themes in Jewish American drama and Jewish literature itself. It tries to systematize the audience’s response to the dialectics of prejudice, the problem of Americanization, the Holocaust and the other related themes. ISBN: 81-85218-19-6 Rs. 400

D. Venkateswarlu The first part contains a series of interviews with prominent Jewish writers; the second part is devoted to a detailed discussion of the twentieth century literary criticism and some specific texts. There are the author’s lively interviews with Saul Bellow, Noam Chomsky, Norman Podhoretz, Wayne C. Booth, David Perkins, Richard Stern, Elie Wiesel, Marshal Sklare and others. ISBN: 81-85218-67-6 Rs. 400

Perspectives on Post-War American Drama

The Plays and Novels of Thronton Wilder

D. Venkateswarlu et al The book focuses on some of the exciting moments of Post-War American Drama duly recognising the contribution of playwrights such as O’Neill, Neil Simon, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, among many others. Inevitably, ethnic theatre, feminist drama, avant-garde theatre ambience of the sixties and the culture of theatre criticism also occupy the attention of the book.

Vrinda Mathur The book critically examines the various themes and techniques employed by Thornton Wilder in his plays and novels, and interprets them in relation to their thought, style and structure. ISBN: 81-85218-59-5 Rs. 250

American Drama

Nathaniel Hawthorne A Study in the Theme of Morality

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Rosy Misra The book offers a comprehensive analysis of moral concerns of Hawthorne, one of the greatest novelists of America. Also, it makes a thorough examination of Hawthorne’s allegorical and symbolic techniques offering new insights and interpretations. ISBN: 81-7551-141-9 Rs. 300

The Fiction of Carson McCullers: Quest for Love Pratibha Nagpal Carson McCullers is a major American novelist who in her fiction probes the issues of loneliness and quest for love. She emphasized on the importance of human values and humanistic philosophy. ISBN: 81-7551-142-7 Rs. 400

Feminist Consciousness in Toni Morrison’s Fiction Sandip Pathak Toni Morrison is one of the foremost 20th century African-American women novelists. In 1993, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for her outstanding contribution to literature. She is best known for discussing in her fiction the issues of gender, class and race. The book highlights the theme of feminist consciousness in all her novels. ISBN: 81-7551-172-9 Rs. 400

The Novels of Toni Morrison: A Study in Race, Gender & Class K. Sumana The book, the first of its kind by an Asian scholar, makes an in-depth study of the interrelationship of race, gender and class in her novels The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved and Jazz. It reveals that Morrison is essentially a fictional artist combining political consciousness with aesthetic sensibility. ISBN: 81-7551-048-X Rs. 400

Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Reader’s Companion Ayesha Irfan, ed. Toni Morrison is one of the foremost contemporary African-American women novelists. In 1988, she won Pulitzer Prize for Fic-

tion for her novel Beloved. The present book makes a detailed study of Toni Morrison as a novelist with a focus on her novel Beloved. ISBN: 81-7851-006-5 Rs. 500

Alice Walker’s The Color Purple A Reader’s Companion Nandita Sinha, ed. The book offers a detailed study of Alice walker as a novelist, focusing on her novel The Color Purple. The first section introduces Alice Walker, with an exhaustive commentary on the novel The Color Purple. ISBN: 81-7551-007-3 Rs. 500

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold Santwana Haldar It discusses Marquez’s contribution to Latin American literature & offers a detailed analysis of his unique mystery novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold. The work is a social satire on contemporary Latin American society. ISBN: 81-7851-009-X Rs. 400

William Faulkner: A Centennial Tribute Somdatta Mandal, ed. William Faulkner’s novels The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom! and As I Lay Dying are regarded the modern classics. The wideranging anthology offers a critical appraisal of Faulkner as a novelist on the 100th anniversary of his birth by international scholars. ISBN: 81-7551-056-0 Rs. 500

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Centenary Essays from India Mohan Ramanan The volume comprises papers presented at an All-India seminar on Scott Fitzgerald, held in Hyderabad. Several of Fitzgerald’s novels are discussed and the insights gained from the growing critical theories have been put to good use in the analyses of Fitzgerald’s works in these articles. ISBN: 81-7551-041-2 Rs. 400

F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Centennial Tribute (in 2 vols.) Somdatta Mandal, ed. Fitzgerald is one of the most colourful, significant and cherished talents that brought

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American literature to world prominence. This wide-ranging anthology presents Fitzgerald as the literary giant of the Roaring Twenties whose works ushered in and christened the Jazz Age. The contributors to the volume comprise an august group of Fitzgerald scholars of international repute. ISBN: 81-7551-039-0 Rs. 600 per set

Subhash Chandra Salinger, a major post-Second World War American novelist, exercised deep and wideranging influence on the American society. The book examines his fiction with a view to ascertaining the concept of man in its totality as it emerges from the corpus of his writings. ISBN: 81-7551-082-X Rs. 400

The Novels of John Gardner

The Novels of William Styron

T. Bharathi John Gardner is America’s most important spokesperson of moral and cultural values in literature. He takes up the cause of traditional values and wages a battle against man’s tendency to shirk personal and moral responsibility. The book studies the prominent theme of affirmation which recurs in his novels. ISBN: 81-7551-118-4 Rs. 400

The Novels of William S. Burroughs Ranjeet Singh Gill The works of Burroughs span both the modernist as well as the postmodernist phase of the American novel. In his treatment of form and technique, especially the depiction of character, plot, theme and imagery, Burroughs defines himself as a hardcore practitioner of unorthodox techniques. The book takes up for discussion all his major novels. ISBN: 81-7551-149-4 Rs. 400

American Women Novelists Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri The book is a study of the male protagonist and the man-woman relationship in the selected novels of Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow and Willa Cather from the feminist perspective. ISBN: 81-7551-092-7 Rs. 400

Sylvia Plath: The Complete Poet Keya Majumdar The book presents an honest appraisal of the whirlpool of Plath’s powerful poetry from the biographic, thematic, stylistic & spiritual perspectives. The book will be of immense use to feminists & lovers of American literature. ISBN: 81-7551-122-2 Rs. 500

The Poetry of Theodore Roethke P. Hannah Padma Theodore Roethke is one of the most significant American poets. The book reveals that in Roethke’s poetry, there is a fusion of psychological strength, intellectual depth, complexity and stylistic originality. ISBN: 81-7551- 016-1 Rs. 250

Critical Theory/Translation Literary Theory Today

The Novels of Bernard Malamud M. Rajagopalachari The book presents a perceptive study of Malamud’s novels considered in terms of the theme of compassion which is of central concern in Jewish literature. With a chapter exclusively on his short stories, it provides an integrated view of the novelist’s entire work. ISBN: 81-85218-02-1 Rs. 400

The Fiction of J.D. Salinger

S. Laxmana Murthy The book presents a perceptive study of Styron’s concern with the tragic fact of human existence as a constant endeavour to affirm love and compassion despite the nihilistic terror caused by ubiquitous violence in modern world. It has chapters on Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House on Fire and The Confessions of Nat Turner. ISBN: 81-85218-03-X Rs. 400

Pramod Nayar Theory is perhaps the most important area of study in the academic curriculum today. Both students and teachers are bewildered by the plethora of theories and baffling criticism constantly pouring in. The book gives a comprehensive introduction to this fast-growing discipline of Literary and Cultural Theory. It elaborates concepts & explains the arguments of principal thinkers and specific schools. ISBN: 81-7851-005-7 Rs. 500

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Anil Raina Literary Theory is perhaps the most debated subject in academic circles today. The theorists discussed include Karl Marx, Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann, T.W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey, Terry Eagleton and Mikhail Bakhtin. ISBN: 81-7551-121-4 Rs. 400

The East and the West meet at many points, especially in the field of literary criticism. The book is a psychological as well as philosophic study of the similarity between the aesthetic principles of I.A. Richards and Abhinavagupta. By establishing a close relationship between Western and Eastern poetics, the book makes a rich contribution to the disciplines of Comparative literature, Indological studies and literary criticism. ISBN: 81-7551-36-6 Rs. 300

Literature and Culture

Literary Theory and F.R. Leavis

Marxism and Literary Value

Sachidanand Mohanty The book brings together a set of essays on literature, culture and literary conversations that have appeared in some of the leading forums in the country. Straddling many worlds —from Cairo to Cambridge, from Sandra Gilbert to Sri Aurobindo—the perspectives aim at the creation of a cultured community. ISBN: 81-7551-113-3 Rs. 500

M. Sridhar This book places the contribution of F.R. Leavis, one of the most controversial and influential critics of this century, in the context of the rise of English studies as a University discipline in England and subsequent developments in criticism and theory. ISBN: 81-7551-058-7 Rs. 300

Postcolonial Discourse: A Study of Contemporary Literature

Trends in the Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

R.K. Dhawan, ed. As a critical ideology, postcolonialism has acquired various interpretations. Postcolonial literature generally deals with the literature of those countries once ruled or colonized by the British. The book offers a hot and stimulating debate on the term postcolonial and discusses how passionately Indian English, African and Caribbean literatures have responded to colonialism & post-Independence. ISBN: 81-7551-033-1 Rs. 300

N.M. Aston, ed. The volume brings together a series of scholarly papers on trends in the twentieth century literary criticism. Various issues have been considered in depth by these theories viz. the functions of criticism, deconstruction, structuralism, the female identity, feminist criticism and multiculturalism. ISBN: 81-7551-056-0 Rs. 300

Literary Theory and the New Critics N.D.R. Chandra The book examines the nature of the traditional criticism vis-a-vis modern criticism. The new in America is represented by J.C. Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, W.K. Wimsatt, Allen Tate and R.P. Blackmur who were highly influenced by critics like T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and I.A. Richards. The book enumerates the different faces of the new criticism of the new critics in general and Cleanth Brooks in particular. ISBN: 81-7551-076-5 Rs. 400

Western and Eastern Poetics K.M. Tharakan

Surviving Postmodernism Ron Shapiro This book is concerned with some of the difficulties posed by postmodernism. It argues that there have been both gains and losses in the widespread acceptance of postmodernist ideas within universities and Western society. ISBN: 81-7551-042-0 Rs. 400

Studies in Translation: Theory & Practice T.Vinoda & V. Gopal Reddy, ed. Translation has a significant role to play in a multilingual and multicultural country like India. It can help build strong bridges between regions, languages and cultures. The book stresses on the need to develop a theory of translation that would go a long way in en-

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suring standards of excellence and professionalism in this field. ISBN: 81-7551-083-8 Rs. 300

Translation: From Periphery to Centrestage

interest to students of literature and religion, and to those who seek a deeper understanding of Indian society & the place of women in it. ISBN: 81-7551-169-9 Rs. 200

Song of a Bard and Other Poems

Tutun Mukherjee, ed. Translation of literary texts has led to both the globalization of culture and the promotion of inter and intra culture bonding. The book is divided into three sections: 1. The setting forth of the theoretical parameters of translation studies; 2. The problematic space of praxis, representing different language and text types; 3. Interviews with famous creative writers in different genres who have done considerable translation work themselves. The issues discussed present a broad spectrum of theoretical, textual and contextual specifics in the field of translation. ISBN: 81-7551-031-5 Rs. 400

Biography

Dilip Sankar Reddy The anthology of poems, in three parts, contains fascinating poems, with a wide range of themes: from love to mundane realities, fiction to facts, and the essential truths of life. ISBN: 81-7551-165-6 Rs. 200

Cracks in the Wall: A Collection of Poems with a comprehensive introduction to Contemporary Indian Poetry P.V. Dhamija The volume contains 36 poems by the author, with a preface by the renowned poet Shiv K. Kumar. A special feature of the book is the introductory chapter that makes a comprehensive study of modern Indian poetry. ISBN: 81-85218-06-4 Rs. 100

Cross and Creation An Anthology of Poems Pashupati Jha

CP: A Short Biography of C.P. Ramaswami Iyer A. Raghu Dr. Sachivottama Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar is one of the most controversial, yet fascinating figures in the history of the Kerala region. This monograph is the first-ever objective biography of CP. This little book not only gives a vivid chronicle of the public life of CP but also attempts to come to grips with the inner man. Written in a succinct and lucid style, the book is remarkable as a biography as also a piece of literary art. ISBN: 81-7551-055-2 Rs. 100

Creative Writing The Songs of Daya Bai Daya Bai ki Bani Harry Aveling & Peter Friedlander The poet-mystic, Daya Bai, wrote in Hindi in Delhi during the eighteenth century. Osho Rajneesh has called her “A little cuckoo,” meaning that she was “a sweet singer like the Indian koyal.” The book offers her voice in simple English prose translation. It will be of

The collection deals with the eternal themes of love, life, suffering and hope for salvation. In addition, it incorporates the contemporary complex problems like incresing individuality and the resultant isolation, growing tension in man-woman relationship, fragmentation of society and family, the plight of old men and Indian women, militancy and communal violence. ISBN: 81-7551-135-4 Rs. 150

Girls Go Wild Kiran Pallod A fantastic maiden novel by the teenager Kiran Pallod, a new star on the literary horizon. Set in the USA, this is the story of Kim, an American girl from a middle-class family, who because of the attitude of the people around her is made to believe that her parents are going to get divorced. A must for all youngsters who love to read, especially for girls. Tomboys for sure will love it. ISBN: 81-7551-106-0 Rs. 100

Shattered Hopes: A novel

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Daya de Silva An excellent novel by an eminent Sri Lankan writer. The protagonist Nelu, who had begun to build a successful academic career in Chicago, hears that her mother is in hospital after a tragic traffic accident. As the story unfolds, Nelu reflects on her father, a professor from Sri Lanka, who had failed to secure an appointment in an American university. In the concluding pages, Nelu reflects upon the challenges faced by contemporary career women and the choices she herself made. ISBN: 81-7551-104-4 Rs. 250

A Story of True Love: A Novel Omesh Mathur An English translation of Urdu novel, Samrhae Naykie (Reward of Kindness) written in 1928, it tells the story of a rich young Englishman, Nevlin Lane. Family conflicts and harassment drive him from a life of luxury and material comforts to a life of poverty and hard labor in an Australian gold mine. By coincidence, he meets Sylvia Bond, a cultured and talented girl whose parents were at one time wealthy and well respected. The story reveals the true love that binds the two. ISBN: 81-7551-089-7 Rs. 500

A Collection of Stories John Cailes The nineteen stories in the volume are of varying length, each having little in common with its neighbours. The stories range from the comic to the tragic to the downright cruel. There’s a ghost story, a fantasy, satire and at the end a cautionary tale to conclude this diverse collection. ISBN: 81-7551-148-6 Rs. 250 Games They Play and Other Stories Ramesh K. Srivastava The stories in the volume have a great appeal and the reader is irresistibly drawn by the sheer force of the narrative. A special feature of the book is the introductory chapter on contemporary Indian short story. ISBN: 81-85218-08-0 Rs. 100

Love and Lust: a novel P.V. Dhamija The novel delineates a society where people of influence thrive at the cost of their poor & unfortunate brethren. Woman in this society is a victim of masculine rapacity and violence. ISBN: 81-85218-05-6 Rs. 100

Beyond the Tunnel: a novel

The Encounter: a novel

P.V. Dhamija The novel delineates two distinct levels of response to Evil in society. The story undulates through the lives and careers of two friends, Jagdeesh and Ajeet, different in respect of age and attitude but tied together by unbreakable bonds of mutual concern and affection. ISBN: 81-7551-024-2 Rs. 120

P.V. Dhamija Yet another novel from the author of Love and Lust. It depicts an exciting encounter between two cultures, Indian & West European, and focuses on their sparkling interface. ISBN: 81-85218-68-4 Rs. 100

Dark Passion: a novel Sarala Barnabas The novel presents a gripping tale of love, passion, and dark secrets hidden for decades. The central character in the novel is Piyali, the descendant of the former ruling house of Chandravats of Divyasthala, a beautiful, tall, regal girl with blue eyes. A narrative simply irresistible. ISBN: 81-7551-013-7 Rs.120

Following the Game

Social Studies The Long Walk: Indian Plantation Labour in Sri Lanka in the Nineteenth Century Ian Driesen A number of scholars have undertaken detailed studies on Indian labour in Africa, Mauritius, Fiji, Southeast Asia and the West Indies, but its history in Sri Lanka has never been investigated. The book by Ian vanden Driesen fills that gap and the mosaic is now complete. The study, highly stimulating and refreshing, has a great appeal to the general reader. It makes a rich contribution to the

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scholarly areas of Economic Growth, Immigrant Studies, Indo-Sri Lankan Relations, South Asian Studies, and Inter-disciplinary Studies. ISBN: 81-7551-047-1 Rs. 500

Divine Akbar and Holy India Farzana Moon This is an excellent work of historical fiction. Akbar is the child of India, nurtured by its God and Goddesses. A devotee of truth, wisdom and knowledge, he embraced and explored the beauty of all religions in an effort to weave the tapestry of one united whole. This saga unfolds such a tapestry in colours warm and exquisite. The theme itself was a journey toward unity in time and timelessness. On the path to truth, Akbar invited padres and theologians from all over the world to discover similarities in religions, not disparities. On the path to love, he became the disciple of his Hindu and Muslim brides, paying homage to the sanctity in beauty, both physical and spiritual. ISBN: 81-7551-088-9 Rs. 800

N.E. Bhagyavathi An exhaustive discussion of the concept of Self-Actualization which is posited as a central motivating force that impels human behaviour and determines the course of development and expression of human personality. ISBN: 81-85218-30-7 Rs. 300

Episodes from Uttara Ramayana: Stories for the Modern Man

Higher Education Funding Higher Education Joy Job Kulavelil The book discusses one of the most controversial topical issues of higher education— should universities and institutions of higher learning conform to the traditional pattern based on support from the government or should the students fund their education. Keeping in mind the contemporary paradigms of education, the author offers a pragmatic solution to the problem being discussed in educational curriculum. ISBN: 81-7551-147-8 Rs. 400

Dictionary

Growing from Within: A Study in Self-Actualization

Religion/Indology

Rama is an embodiment of virtue and righteousness. His attributes expound an exemplary behaviour for mankind of the succeeding ages. Ramayana, a great monumental work composed by Valmiki, is his life story. The book is very useful and interesting compilation of Sarma’s translation of a few marvellous and hitherto unearthed stories. ISBN: 81-7551Rs. 200

Chang-English English-Chang Dictionary Achilla Imlong Erdican Chang is one of the most important languages spoken and written in the state of Nagaland. The dictionary makes a pioneering attempt at presenting a standard spelling system and definitive meanings of the words in this language. The book makes a rich contribution to language and linguistic studies in Asia. ISBN: 81-7551-132-X Rs. 500

V.V. Sarma

JUST RELEASED! Expatriate Writing in English (3-vol. set) T. Vinoda and Sailaja The writers examined in the first two volumes include Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Vassanji, Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Divakaruni, Rohinton Mistry, Shashi Tharoor, Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Meera Syal, Amit Chaudhury, Meena Alexander, Sunetra Gupta, Gita Mehta, Suniti Namjoshi, Shani Mootoo, Anurag Mathur, Amulya Malladi, Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, Anita Rau Badami, Abraham Verghese, Peter Nazareth, and a few Indo-

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Prestige Books, New Delhi. www.asiabookclub.com Guyanese writers. In an effort to enhance the referential value of this critical offering, the editors have included in the third volume a bibliography with helpful annotations. ISBN: 81-7551-181-8/ 182-6/ 183-4 3-vol. set Rs. 1800

Amrita Pritam: Life as Literature Bhagyashree S. Varma The entire gamut of Amrita Pritam’s writings, especially her autobiography Raseedi Ticket and her classic Partition novel Pinjar, deals with woman’s role and position in Indian society. The present volume is a literary tribute to the versatile genius whose writings truly reflect her life and literature. ISBN: 81-7551-185-0 Rs. 400

Rohinton’s Mistry’s Such a Long Journey: A Critical Study Santwana Haldar Mistry’s Such a Long Journey has been regarded as a landmark in the history of Indian fiction. The novel overtly socio-political, vividly depicts Bombay and the Parsi world. The present volume, first of its kind, offers a critical and insightful commentary on this complex novel ISBN: 81-7551-025-1 Rs. 500

Rushdie, Kureishi, Syal: Essays in Diaspora Esterino Adami The book aims at exploring the world of diasporic fiction in Britain, with a special focus on Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi and Meera Syal. Through an interdisciplinary approach, Adami deals with a wide variety of critical issues such as the impact of ethnic communities, the reinvention of Englishness against the backdrop of intercultural negotiations, the rise of diasporic cinema and the literary experience of hybridity. ISBN: 81-7551-184-2 Rs. 500

Divergent Trends in Indian Fiction in English K.K. Khurana The post-Independence era has witnessed the emergence of a large number of great novelists like Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry and Arundhati Roy. Their novels reveal divergent trends; they deal with complex themes related to gender, caste, colour, diaspora, feminism and same-sex relationship. ISBN: 81-7551-180-X Rs. 500

August Strindberg’s Miss Julie: A Study Nandita Sinha August Strindberg (1849-1912) ranks as one of the great masters of modern European drama and a major influence on many innovative writers of the twentieth century. Miss Julie (1888) belongs to Strindberg’s naturalistic period in which his own violent conflicts and anxieties about class and sexual relationships are given powerful dramatic expression. ISBN: 81-7851-026-X Rs. 500

The Poetry of Philip Larkin K. Rajamouly Philip Larkin is one of the leading post-War British poets. His poetry focuses on time in which the entire human world is caught up. Time has disruptive nature and destructive power to cor-

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Prestige Books, New Delhi. www.asiabookclub.com rode our desires and turn life futile and mortal. In the journey of time, love often becomes a failure and life leads to inevitable death. Larkin extensively deals with love, marriage, life and death, themes which have great human significance and universal appeal. ISBN: 81-7551-187-7 Rs. 500

Australian Aboriginal Women’s Autobiographies K. Suneetha Rani Australian Aboriginal women’s autobiographies function as vehicles to convey the writers’ protest against colonisation and oppression. They deconstruct the history and Aboriginal identity created by the colonisers and come up with alternative histories in the form of autobiographies thus writing not only their stories but also the life stories of people like them. ISBN: 81-7551-179-6 Rs. 500

Raja Rao’s Kanthapura: A Critical Study Suman Bala and Ranu Uniyal, ed. Raja Rao, a pioneer of Indian English fiction, published his classic novel Kanthapura in the 1930s. This socio-political novel since then, has been a front-ranking favourite of the readers. This volume provides a most comprehensive study of the novel, offering new interpretations and foresights. ISBN: 81-7851-027-8 Rs. 500

The Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong’o: A Study in the Theme of Exploitation P. Padma Ngugi . ISBN: 81-7551-186-9

Rs. 400

Bharati Mukherjee’s Fiction Vandana Singh Bharati Mukherjee. ISBN: 81-7551-190-7

Rs. 500

Representations of India in British Writing 1757-1857 Sindhu Menon ISBN: 81-7551-189-3

Rs. 500

Forthcoming Publications Bernard Malamud S. S. Gill Contemporary Postcolonial and Post-imperial Literatures Nilufer Bharucha, ed.

Rabindranath Tagore’s Muktadhara: A Critical Study Beena Agarwal

Kalidasa’s Shakuntala: A Critical Study Sangeeta Das

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Prestige Books, New Delhi. www.asiabookclub.com Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things: A Critical Study Satish Barbuddhe

Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence: A Critical Study Vandana Dutta

R.K. Narayan: A Centennial Tribute Suman Bala, ed.

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye: A Critical Study Pratibha Mukherjee Sahukar

Wounded Past: A Study of the Partition Literature (3-vol. set) Neena Arora and R.K. Dhawan, ed.

Indian Literature in English: New Insights Pramod Nayar

Gandhi and Indian Fiction Suman Bala

Dalit Literature D. Savio and R.K. Dhawan, ed.

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