Critical spectrum : essays in literary culture (In honour of Prof. C. D. Narasimhaiah) / edited by Satish C. Aikant

Includes index

SECTION I- CULTURE/METACULTURE Some thoughts on the puzzle of identity -- Nayantara Sahgal Problematizing hybridity: the diasporie versus the stay-at-home writer -- Jasbir Jain Crossing cultures: Australia and the Asia - Pacific -- Bruce Bennett Culture and decolonization -- Satish C. Aikant Decolonizing English studies: Towards Svaraj -- Makarand Paranjape A tangle of Indian english translation issues -- John Oliver Perry Reading and teaching translation -- Meenakshi Mukherjee The torture - point of song and the logistics of metaphor -- Syd Harrex C. D. Narasimhaiah: Towards a common poetics for modern India -- K. C. Belliappa SECTION II - TEXTS/CONTEXTS The early Indian novels -- K. Ayyappa Paniker Dodwell revisited: the workings of colonial discourse -- Mohan Ramanan The double making of R. K. Narayan -- John Thieme Fiction of Arun Joshi: The novel of interior landscape -- C. N. Srinath Two novels: The God of small things by Arundhati Roy and Green well years by Manohar Devadoss: a study in contrast -- Shyamala A. Narayan Who's afraid of Mala Mousi? Violence and the 'Family Romance' in Anjana Appachana's "Incantations" -- Suvir Kaul Heart of darkness: an Indian's reading -- A. Madhavan Aspects of Indian thought in W.B. Yeats's The Herne's Egg -- Narayan Hegde The dialectic of freedom and failure: Saul Bellow's Seize the Day and Mr. Sammler's Planet -- Amritjit Singh Walcott's connections -- Bernth Lindfors C. D. Narasimhaiah: honours and major writing