Publications
Representations
of a Culture in Indian English Poetry
By Mita Biswas
In
this book an attempt has been made to present a systematic
and synoptic study of the major voices of Indian English Poetry
from ever shifting paradigms of Indian Culture. The poets
have been viewed in relation to currents and cross-currents
of thought of their times. They have not been treated merely
as the products of the intellectual milieu but as the dynamic
moulders of the traditions in transition which get reflected
in their poetical expressions. Polemic issues such as legitimacy
of writing in English, identity crisis, quest for roots, self-definition,
the problems of exile and diaspora, hybridization, alienation
and assimilation et al have been perceived in the long journey
of its growth from nostalgia to contemporaneity.
2009, x+255 pp.,
Rs. 475,
ISBN:81-7986-072-8
