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Half a literature.(The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature)(Book Review)
The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature edited by Amit Chaudhuri; Picador, 2002, $23.
IT'S DIFFICULT to negotiate your way through the cacophony of sound that Indian literature creates. Postmodernists like Rushdie, Mistry, Seth and Roy struggle with identity: who is Indian, what is Indian? What is India? Is it a place of bastardry and corruption so barbaric that it leaves the soul rent and the heart bleeding? Is that who we are? Or do we prefer the Western idealistic view: Maharishis, enlightenment, peace and love?
In fact, Indian writers struggle to come to terms with all these issues. India as a nation is a paradox where the philosophies of ...
- The Picador Book of African Stories. (General Area).
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Kurtz, J. Roger June 22, 2001 700+ words
The Picador Book of African Stories Stephen Gray, ed...ISBN 0-330-48540-7 IN THE PICADOR BOOK of African Stories Stephen Gray serves...few years ago. In all, though, The Picador Book of African Stories offers a deliciously...
- Picador book of contemporary Chinese fiction.
- Magazine article from: New Internationalist May 1, 1999 700+ words
...by Carolyn Choa and David Su Li-Qun (Picador, ISBN 0 330 35264 4) Though extraordinarily varied, the stories in The Picador Book of Contemporary Chinese Fiction seem rather old fashioned in that they have a moral. Several take the form of fables with...
- The Wild Blue Yonder: The Picador Book of Aviation.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Caterson, Simon November 1, 1998 700+ words
The Wild Blue Yonder: The Picador Book of Aviation, edited by Graham Coster; Picador, 1998, $39.95. MOST OF US have travelled by air, but aviation has brought...
- The Picador Book of African Stories. (Books).
- Magazine article from: New Internationalist Whittaker, Peter April 1, 2002 700+ words
Edited by Stephen Gray (Picador, ISBN 0 330 36989) In his introduction to this impressive collection, the editor Stephen Gray remarks that, with the first free elections in his native South Africa in 1994, he finally felt able to explore that whole continent of experience that apartheid had
- 'Trembling...Can Be Heard'.(Real Time: Stories and a Reminiscence)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Kumar, Amitava June 17, 2002 700+ words
...skill at criticism is not a result of close reading--though that ability is in fine evidence in The Picador Book of Indian Literature, which Chaudhuri has edited--but of a serious search for a reading public. Chaudhuri's writing...
- Dallying with dailiness: Amit Chaudhuri's Flaneur fictions.
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel Majumdar, Saikat December 22, 2007 700+ words
...Arts. He discussed his anthology, The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, which had been released by that time in...US in 2004 as the Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature. At the heart of this talk was a startling...
- Indian Literature Does Have a Composite Identity
- Newspaper article from: India Abroad K. Satchidanandan September 22, 1995 700+ words
...Satchidanandan India Abroad 09-22-1995 Indian Literature Does Have a Composite Identity...argue that there is nothing called Indian Literature since India does not have a common...literatures in Indian languages share. Indian literature attained its cultural and historical...
- A Dictionary of Indian Literature. 1: Beginnings-1850.(Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Narayan, Shyamala A. September 22, 2000 700+ words
A Dictionary of Indian Literature. 1: Beginnings-1850. Sujit...is also The Encyclopedia of Indian Literature (1987-1994), covering...historiography and translation in Indian literature. Towards a Literary History...