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Modern South Asian Literature in English (Literature as Windows to World Cultures Series) » (New Edition)
Authors: Paul Brians
ISBN-13: 9780313320118, ISBN-10: 031332011X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Paul Brians
PAUL BRIANS is Professor of English and Coordinator of Humanities at Washington State University. He has published extensively on nuclear war fiction, and has written numerous study guides on the literature of Africa, India, and the Caribbean. He is editor-in-chief of Reading about the World.
Book Synopsis
Analyses and cultural backgrounds are offered for 15 of the most important and popular works of South Asian literature.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 3 | |
| 1 | The Fiction of Rabindranath Tagore: Quartet (1915) | 11 |
| 2 | Raja Rao: Kanthapura (1938) | 27 |
| 3 | Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan (1956) | 47 |
| 4 | R. K. Narayan: The Guide (1958) | 59 |
| 5 | Attia Hosain: Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) | 75 |
| 6 | Anita Desai: Games at Twilight (1978) | 87 |
| 7 | Bapsi Sidhwa: Cracking India (1988) | 99 |
| 8 | Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine (1989) | 111 |
| 9 | Salman Rushdie: East, West (1994) | 129 |
| 10 | Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy (1994) | 147 |
| 11 | Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance (1996) | 155 |
| 12 | Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (1997) | 165 |
| 13 | Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost (2000) | 177 |
| 14 | Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies (2000) | 195 |
| 15 | Manil Suri: The Death of Vishnu (2001) | 205 |
| Glossary of Terms | 219 | |
| Index | 243 |
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