Critical Essays on Post-colonial Literature
- ISBN-10
- 8171568394
- ISBN-13
- 9788171568390
- Pages
- 165
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Atlantic Publishers and Distributors
- Author
- Bijay Kumar Das
Description
Critical Essays on Post-Colonial Literature is an attempt to analyse some of the outstanding Post-Colonial writers like Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize Winner 1997), Vikram Chandra (Commonwealth Prize Winner 1997), Derek Walcott (Nobel Prize Winner), Margaret Atwood (well known Canadian Writer), Jayanta Mahapatra, Dom Moraes, Nissim Ezekiel, Keki N. Daruwalla, Kamla Das, Shiv K. Kumar, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Ruskin Bond (all Sahitya Akademi Award winners) in the light of Post-Colonial theory. Apart from analysing individual authors, an attempt has also been made to show the trends in Post-Colonial Poetry, Orissan contribution to Post-Colonial Indian English literature and above all, Post-Colonial English Studies in India.
This is a well researched book on Post-Colonial Literature.
