Modern Indian Poetry in English

Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-19-567197-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 483 g

'Bruce King maps uncharted territory,.provides ideas toward a poetics of Indian poetry in English, analyses poets in dialectical sets, summarizes poetic obsessions.King surveys, judges, informs, and provokes.' -- Peter Nazareth, World Literature Today

'.a significant book.King provides us with a detailed history of publication of poetry in English in India. One aspect to admire.is King's analysis of individual poems.' -- Journal of Indian Writing in English

'When [the book] first appeared, it almost became like a Bible on the subject, the only worthwhile reference tool [to] dip into [for] trivia on poetry written in English by Indians.' -- Biblio

Zielgruppe

Students of Indian poetry and literature, scholars of South Asian literature and culture, the general reader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- History and Publishing Circles

- The Poets, their Readers and the Market

- Towards a Canon

- Poetics and Criticism

- Ezekiel and His Influence

- The Poets India I: Ezekiel, Ramanujan, Patel, Daruwalla, Shiv Kumar

- The Poet's India II

- Peeradina, Rodrigues, de Souza, Shetty, Silgardo

- Women's Voices: Kamala Das, de Souza, Silgardo

- Two Bilingual Experimentalists: Kolatkar and Chitre

- Experimentalists II: Mehtotra and Mahapatra

- Exile: Ramanujan, Sharat Chandra, Kumar, Nazareth, Seth

- And Return: Parthasarathy and Jussawalla

- Part 2: The Disapora: Agha Shahid Ali's Tricultural Nostalgia

- Publishing 1987-99

- Maturity: Moraes, Peeradina, Ramanujan, Patel, Shetty, Mehrotra, Daruwalla, de Souza, Alexander

- New Women Poets: Shivdasani, Patel, D'Souza, Sambrani, Dharker, Divakaruni, Bhatt

- New Poets, Styles, and Feelings: Hoskote, Thayil, Surendran, Nambisan, Merchant, Rao, Padhi, Khair, Prasad, Ramakrishnan

- Chronology of Significant Publications, Journals and Events, 1947-99

- Chart

- I: Life and Career Details of Some Poets

- Chart 2: Anthologies, Publishers and Awards, Chart 3: Important Anthologized Poems

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

KING, BRUCE^l^lFeaturing

Nissim Ezekiel A K Ramanujan Tara Patel Keki Daruwalla Shiv Kumar Saleem Peeradina Santan Rodrigues Eunice de Souza Manohar Shetty Melanie Silgardo Kamala Das Arun Kolatkar Dilip Chitre Sharat Chandra Shiv Kumar H O Nazareth Vikram Seth

R Parthasarathy Adil Jussawalla Agha Shahid Ali Dom Moraes Gieve Patel Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Meena Alexander Menka Shivdasani Charmayne D'Souza Mukta Sambrani Imtiaz Dharker Chitra Banerjee Divakurni Sujata Bhatt Ranjit Hoskote C P Surendran Vijay Nambisan Hoshang Merchant R Raj Rao Bibhu Padhi Tabish Khair G J V Prasad

E V Ramakrishnan Jeet Thayil Jayanta Mahapatra