Political Novel: The Beaten Track and The Path Ahead

by Purnima Anil, Sandhya Saxena

Overview

Being the 'unacknowledged legislator' of the world a literary artist derives substance for his legislation from diverse sources including politics. In the bewildering modern world which witnesses the overthrow of existing conceptualized versions and definitions political situations have also altered astonishingly. Politics, today, has acquired awesome dimensions. Socio-political dialectics dominate the global society and resultantly the world of literature, too. Present anthology surveys the premises of political consciousness in Indian English fiction since the days of India's first political novel that gave India her national song to the recent times when novelists are busy exploring the wider connotations of politics. The odyssey of Indian political novel in English is marked with sweeping waves of change whose action is measured through various synoptic papers on the giants of Indian fiction like Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, Bhabani Bhattacharya, V. S. Naipaul, Chaman Nahal, Khushwant Singh, Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Rohinton Mistry, Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga. Moreover, a survey of the fiction of Sunil Sharma, P. C. K. Prem and P. V. Jaganmohan offers a glance at the wider perspective and current trends in the field of political novel. In an era when everything is politics the anthology will certainly be of great help to the teachers, researchers and scholars of English literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789385484261
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	222
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Dr.Purnima Anil, Head, Dept. of English, Bareilly College, Bareilly has been a reputed teacher of English literature and language for decades. She has supervised various researches in multiple genre of English literature. She has successfully organized a national seminar on Socio Cultural Dimensions of Indian Diaspora. In the year 2011 under her esteemed supervision 56th All India English Teachers' Conference was held at Bareilly College, Bareilly.

Dr. Sandhya Saxena teaches English at V.R.A.L.Govt. Girls Degree College, Bareilly, U.P. Her area of interest is Indian Writing in English. Her scholarly and innovative articles have been included into several anthologies. She has also contributed to Cyber Literature, a biannual journal of international repute. Presently, she is busy with a project on A Comparative Study of R.K.Narayan's lingual and R.K. Laxman's Graphic Representation of Humanity' sponsored by U.G.C.