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The Indian Imagination focuses on literary developments in English both in the colonial and postcolonial periods of Indian history. Six divergent writers - Aurobindo Ghose (Sri Aurobindo), Mulk Raj Anand, Balachandra Rajan, Nissim Ezekiel, Anita Desai, and Arun Joshi - represent a consciousness that has emerged from the confrontation between tradition and modernity. The colonial fantasy of British India was finally dissolved in the first half of this century, only to be succeeded by another fantasy, that of the reinstituted sovereign nation-state. This study argues that the two phases of history - like the two phases of Indian writing in English - together represent the sociohistorical process of colonization and decolonization and the affirmation of identity.
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K.D. Verma is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Indian Imagination
Book Subtitle: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English
Authors: K. D. Verma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61823-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-21139-4Published: 03 June 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-61823-1Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 268
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Fiction, Cultural Studies, Imperialism and Colonialism, Twentieth-Century Literature