(A) Talent for the particular : critical essays on R. K. Narayan / edited by Raymond-Jean Frontain and Basudeb Chakraborty

Includes index

Introduction: a talent for the particular -- Raymond-Jean Frontain Negitiating tradition: the complexity of R. K. Narayan's postcolonial position -- Sankar Sinha Indeterminacy of address and identity in R. K. Narayan's Swami and Friends -- Baisali Hui R. K. Narayan's The dark room: an exposure of Indian patriarchy -- Chirantan Sarkar "Why do you pretend?": performance, myth and realism in R. K. Narayan's The dark room -- Bryan Hull Walking down Lawley Road: What is Malgudi in R. K. Narayan's Malgudi days? -- Debiprasad Bhattacharya R. K. Narayan's ultimate realism: India's spiritual rebirth in The English teacher -- Nancy Ann Watanabe The making of a saint: A new reading of R. K. Narayan's The guide -- Binayak Roy Lost at the crossroads: Rosie as R. K. Narayan's version of the New woman -- Urmila Chakraborty Screening the nation: Guide and the (re)production of India -- Niladri Chatterjee R. K. Narayan's The man-eater of Malgudi: symbol and allegory -- Kalyan Chatterjee The irreverence of the comparison: R. K. Narayan's rewriting of sacred narrative in The man-eater of malgudi -- Raymond-Jean Frontain R. K. Narayan's Hindu world view: Jagan's progress from egotism to Mysticism in The vendor of sweets -- Basudeb Chakraborty R. K. Narayan's historic slice of life: theological hybridity and east-west logistics in The vendor of sweets -- Nancy Ann Watanabe Tradition and modernity in R. K. Narayan's The painter of signs -- Daniel W. Ross R. K. Narayan's A tiger for malgudi and ecocriticism -- Angshuman Kar Anxiety of an author: a study of R. K. Narayan as a non-fiction writer -- Himadri Lahiri Re-membering selves: being and writing in R. K. Narayan's My days -- Amit Bhattacharya A select bibliography on R. K. Narayan -- Basudeb Chakraborty and Leena Sarkar