Indian Literature: Positions and Prepositions, Pencraft International, 9788185753256

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Indian Literature: Positions and Prepositions

K. Satchidanandan (Author)

Synopsis

This volume of critical essays on Indian literature covers a wide range of genres like novel, short story and poetry and of languages like Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, Kannada and Malayalam besides English. Informed by a deep and firsthand awareness of Indian literary trends and texts as well as of contemporary literary theory, these essays revaluate concepts and movements like Modernism, Dalit literature, Nativism, Dalit literature, Nativism and Feminism and offer close readings of the texts of a number of Indian writers including Premchand, Mirza Ghalib, Mahasweta Devi, Ramakanta Rath, Kamala Das, Chandrasekhara Kambar and Ayyappa Paniker.

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About the author

K. Satchidanandan

K Satchidanandan, the editor of this anthology, is one of the pioneers of modern Indian poetry. He has authored 20 volumes of poetry besides 15 books of translations of poetry, 15 volumes of essays and 2 plays in Malayalam and 2 books on Indian literature in English. He has edited several volumes of poetry, short stories and critical essays in Malayalam, English and Hindi. There are 21 volumes of his work in translation in 14 languages including English, French and Indian. He has represented Indian literature at several international events in India, Thailand, China, Russia, France, Germany, Sweden, Yugoslavia, U.S.A., etc. and won 15 awards for creative writing. At present he is the Secretary of Sahitya Akademi, the National Academy of Letters in India.

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