The Indian Imagination

The Indian Imagination
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Publisher : MacMillan
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0333915224
ISBN-13 : 9780333915226
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Book Synopsis The Indian Imagination by : K. D. Verma

Download or read book The Indian Imagination written by K. D. Verma and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the work of six 20th-century Indian writers who experienced both the colonial and postcolonial waves in Indian culture, and have explored this theme in their writings in English. It reads the work of Sri Aurobindo, Mulk Raj Anand, Balachandra Rajan, Nissim Ezekiel, Arun Joshi, and Anita Desai, examining issues of representation and identity, colonial and post colonial India, gender, power, and imperialism under a post structuralist and sociohistorical lens.


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