Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction
Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction

Author: Chelva Kanaganayakam

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0889207496

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What do R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi, and Salman Rushdie have in common? They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural nationalists for not writing in native languages, they nonetheless present a critique of the historical and cultural conditions that promoted and sustained writing in English. They also have in common a counterrealist aesthetic that asks its own social, political, and textual questions. This book is about the need to look at the tradition of Indian writing in English from the perspective of counterrealism. The departure from the conventions of mimetic writing not only challenges the limits of realism but also enables Indo-Anglian authors to access formative areas of colonial experience. Kanaganayakam analyzes the fiction of writers who work in this vibrant Indo-Anglian tradition and demonstrates patterns of continuity and change during the last five decades. Each chapter draws attention to what is distinctive about the artifice in each author while pointing to the features that connect them. The book concludes with a study of contemporary writing and its commitment to non-mimetic forms.

Confessions of an Alien Marooned on Earth
Confessions of an Alien Marooned on Earth

Author: Chaz Van Heyden

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9781493508587

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This book contains the first book, its sequel and third concluding book of Confessions of an Alien Marooned on Earth where our alien describes in his own words what happens when he finally arrives back on Sellier, his home planet. How he designs a way to avoid being scourged by the inhabitants for the evil deeds he committed. How he achieves vindication over strenuous opposition, so he can be naturalized and reunited with his friends and co-citizens of the planet he was exiled from. Elvis Appoliani has left earth in the company of other aliens, not of his kind though and not necessarily friendly but willing for an exchange to take him to Sellier. Elvis gets dropped off and must quickly acclimate himself to the environment, find work, allies, and properly divulge all that he has been guilty of and in such a way that he will not incur ostracism a second time. Elvis attracts a beautiful capable woman who very well in the end might be a savior to his cause. And when the chips are down, an unsuspected boost comes from a source least expected that opens the door for ultimate success.

The B. S. Johnson - Zulfikar Ghose Correspondence
The B. S. Johnson - Zulfikar Ghose Correspondence

Author: Vanessa Guignery

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1443876801

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From 1959 to 1973, the writers B. S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose regularly wrote letters to each other in which they discussed their own work and literary preoccupations. They exchanged early drafts of poems, short stories, plays and novels, and their correspondence contains detailed comments and extended analyses of these texts, as well as illuminating reflections on literature, criticism, poetics and aesthetics. Though much of the correspondence is an extended literary discussion, it also contains moments of personal revelation, jokes and anecdotes so that the letters, with their surprising asides, are enjoyable to read, even as they inform with their biographical and intellectual content. The two authors also frequently refer to the university poetry journals and literary magazines they contributed to or edited, and they write about the poetry meetings they attended and the writers they met or read. Their involvement in literary groups and their dealings with publishers, editors and agents are indicative of the publishing mechanisms of the time. This correspondence thus not only provides insight into the work of both B. S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose, but also conjures up a comprehensive picture of the London literary world of the 1960s.

The Experimentalists
The Experimentalists

Author: Joseph Darlington

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1350244414

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The Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and interviews with the writers' colleagues, is brought together to produce a comprehensive history of this ill-starred group of renegade writers. Whether the bolshie B.S. Johnson, the globetrotting Ann Quin, the cerebral Christine Brooke-Rose, or the omnipresent Anthony Burgess, these writers each brought their own unique contributions to literature at a time uniquely open to their iconoclastic message. The journey connects historical moments from Bletchley Park, to Paris May '68, to terrorist groups of the 1970s. A tale of love, loss, friendship and a shared vision, this book is a fascinating insight into a bold, provocative and influential group of writers whose collective story has gone untold, until now.

Asian American Autobiographers
Asian American Autobiographers

Author: Guiyou Huang

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2001-05-30

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0313016763

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Asian Americans have made many significant contributions to industry, science, politics, and the arts. At the same time, they have made great sacrifices and endured enormous hardships. This reference examines autobiographies and memoirs written by Asian Americans in the twentieth century. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 60 major autobiographers of Asian descent. Some of these, such as Meena Alexander and Maxine Hong Kingston, are known primarily for their writings; others, such as Daniel K. Inouye, are known largely for other achievements, which they have chronicled in their autobiographies. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a reliable account of the autobiographer's life; reviews major autobiographical works and themes, including fictionalized autobiographies and autobiographical novels; presents a meticulously researched account of the critical reception of these works; and closes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An introductory essay considers the history and development of autobiography in American literature and culture and discusses issues and themes vital to Asian American autobiographies and memoirs, such as family, diaspora, nationhood, identity, cultural assimilation, racial dynamics, and the formation of the Asian American literary canon. The volume closes with a selected bibliography.

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Author: Eugene Benson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 1950

ISBN-13: 1134468482

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" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace
Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace

Author: S. Brouillette

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-05-16

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0230288170

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Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace.