Culture and Identity
Re-reading Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand
Published on 30. June 2014
174 pages
978-93-85484-34-6 (ISBN)
Description
The most striking feature of the book (Culture and Identity, Re-reading Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand) is its fresh take on Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand. Beyond the conventional, canonical critical approaches that usually estimate these authors from social, philosophical perspectives, the book takes recourse to the cultural issues of nation, language `difference', identity politics, class struggle, gender formations, post-colonialism, and postmodernism. This critical anthology tries to trace the hyphenated status - the (r)evolutionary unease - of these writers as revealed in their works. The essays unearth, in the writings of maestros, the cultural tension and negotiations that struggle for recognition of identity.
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Persons
By Prof. Aninda Basu Roy and Dr. Arindam Das
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. From Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable to Sampat Pal's Women in Pink Saris: Cultural Glimpses of Contemporary India
- 2. A Stylist with a Difference: An Analysis of Anand's Short Stories
- 3. Answering the Call of The Wretched of the Earth: Interpolation of Fanon's Discourse in Anand's Short Stories
- 4. The Endorsement of ??????????) Indianness: Raja Rao's 'Foreword' to Kanthapura as a Cultural 'Text'
- 5. Raja Rao's Kanthapura: A Counter-discourse to the Colonial Representation of India
- 6. Mulk Raj Anand and His Untouchable
- 7. Raja Rao's Cultivation of Indianness for the Western Audience: Revisiting The Serpent and the Rope and Kanthapura
- 8. Examining the Structures of Fusion and Encounter? A Study of Anand's Conversations in Bloomsbury
- 9. Caught in-between Two Worlds: Ambivalance in Mulk Raj Anand
- 10. Mulk Raj Anand's Bakha: A Faliure of Colonial Discourse?
- 11. Negotiating between Cultures: A Study of Select Novels of Raja Rao
- 12. The Politics of Language, Style and Theme in Raja Rao's Kanthapura
- 13. The Revival of an Authentic Identity: Reading the Novels of Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao
- Our Contributors
- Index
