English writers have formed interesting plots using myths, history, and politics. The post-1980s Indian English fiction is not simply a story of India, but a strong evidence of changing the literary culture in India. The strength of the post-1980s Indian English fiction lies in the excavation of memories, hidden past, myths, and political history of India in the contemporary novels in a fantastic magic-realist way. This chapter highlights the major trends in the post-1980s Indian English fiction.
storytelling has been an extremely popular method of preserving tradition and culture, as well as detailing significant events occurring in a particular society. The tradition of reciting stories through various oral methods resulted in the creation of poems, which are literary works typically rich in intensity, expression, and feelings. Poems, which are nearly always rhythmical and metaphorical, can effectively be used to study the culture and tradition of a particular society. Asian Americans, whom have
Roy Porter’s Bodies Politic is a well-documented study, rich in illustrations of visual and literary representations, of the social and cultural attitudes towards health, disease, mortality and doctors in Britain from the seventeenth century to the end of the Victorian age. Though the time- frame is clearly stated in the title, Porter has briefly but sincerely traced the cultural history of healing and doctoring in Europe since the Classical times, both in spiritual and pathological senses, and
This research mirrors the formative journey of Indian English literature in the form of novel “The rise of the novel in India was not purely a literary phenomenon.It was a social phenomenon as much, rather the fulfillment of a social need’’.1 Writes K.S.Ramamurti in his book Rise of the Indian Novel In English . Of Course, fiction can be called a new branch, a new attempt in comparison with poetry, prose and other treatises but today we can claim that it is the most popular genre of Indo-Anglian
Right from the old days, India is a male-ruled society. Indian women were bound with numerous a thick, slack layers of prejudice, tradition, ignorance and silence in writing and in life as well. Woman was a lifeless object, who has to follow five paces behind their men… they must be delicate, persistent, generous, and for generations together. Bengali women were hidden behind the banished windows of half dark rooms, spending hundreds of years in washing garments, kneading dough and murmuring aloud
middle Ages saw the predominance of the Christian church and education was largely under the control of the church. However, education was available only to the privileged few and books were scarce and expensive. Children’s Literature in the Context of India: Like
generations of a family; Dadi, her children and grand children. The overzealous matriarch, Dadi, tries to select a match for her grandchildren through the tradition of arrange marriage. Haroon, the obedient elder brother first goes through the process of arrange marriage then he finally proposes to a co-worker. Even this slight deviation from tradition upsets Dadi but she accepts it. The real trouble begins with Zeba, who not only dares to stay unmarried until the alarming age of 25 but select a match
Works on the Fiction Criticism of F.R. Leavis K.Eswara Reddy Asst.professor in English K.S.R.M College of Engineering Kadapa – 516003 A.P, INDIA K.Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy Asst.professor in English K.S.R.M College of Engineering Kadapa – 516003 A.P, INDIA Abstract We find the earliest criticism on the fiction criticism of F.R. Leavis in 1958 in George Steiner’s Language and Silence. George Steiner regards Leavis as a better critic of fiction than of poetry. According to him Leavis admitted
of Indian theatrical tradition in the dramatic cultures of the world—its antiquity as well as its aesthetic appeal—is more or less indisputable today. The roots of theatre in India are ancient and deep-seated. Theatrical expression of some kind or the other has been since primitive and mythic times, an integral part of Indian life. Our knowledge about the initial, primitive stage of theatrical activity in India is very meagre. However one can safely say that theatre in India as in Greece was deeply
biggest selling English Language novelist in India’s record. He has opened the floodgates for a new movement in Postmodern Indian Writing. His name doesn’t polish any Booker list, but it is heard on the lips of every college student in India. While the global literary inhabit on the fiction of India‘s past, Chetan Bhagat has become India’s darling writer by embracing the present. He manages to keep his sense of humor despite writing on topics that are actually the pitiless realities of beings. His