Shrinking Horizons, Rainbow on Rocks, Whirlpool of Echoes, Songs of Silence
Kulbhushan Kushal
Shrinking Horizons (1989, Reprint 2005), Rainbow on Rocks (2005, Rs. 100/150) and Whirlpool of Echoes (2006, Rs. 150, ISBN:81-902800-3-1) Songs of Silence (2008, Rs. 200,ISBN:81-902800-5-8) are collections of Kulbhushan Kushal's poems. These books show the poetic craft and richness of themes concentrating on contemporary social reality. The multi-dimensional nature of Kushal's poetry offers a very useful, novel and scholarly project for research in Indian-English poetry. The variety of themes, the use of fresh images and introduction of new perspectives in these poems, mark the emergence of a powerful poetic voice in the horizon of Indian-English poetry.
CONTENTSIntroduction Kulbhushan Kushal, N.K. NebPoint of View : A Narrative Strategy in Raja Rao's Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, The Cat and Shakespeare and Comrade Kirillov “ R a t i o n a l i z a t i o n ” i n B h a b a n i Bhattacharya's He Who Rides a Tiger
Quest for Identity in Arun Joshi's The Strange Case of Billy Biswas and The Last Labyrinth Role of Narrator in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's To Who She Will
Textual Strategies and Thematic Relevance in Baumgartner's Bombay
Dr. K. B. Kushal
Dr. Bindu Bedi
Dr. Adarsh Khanna
Dr. Vijay Kumar Sharma
Dr. Ramandeep Singh
A Spectrum of Indian-English Fiction : Critical Studies (Rs. 275, (2002) ed. K.B. Kushal, N.K. Neb The articles in this book address a wide variety of themes and the various experiments in technique introduced by India-English fiction writers. A sustained growth marking the shifts in the nature, study and understanding of Indian-English
Fiction at its various stages can be ascertained from a study of different articles in the collection. The study includes articles tracing the recent shift in the paradigms of understanding and the development of a new type of fiction.
The Rich Political Medley of Geeta Mehta's Raj
Portrayal of Diaspora Experiences in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things : A Semiotic Analysis
The God of Small Things : A Study in Contradictions and Constraints
Feminism at Crossroads : Images of Women in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
In An Antique Land : A Monumental Work in Shifting Paradigms
Dr. Rupinder Kaur
Dr. Tejinder Kaur
Dr. Parminder Singh
Dr. G.D. Barche
Dr. Sangeeta Handa
Dr. N. K. Neb
Emerging Modes and Metaphors : Perspectives on Indian-English Fiction
(Rs. 300) (2004) ed. Kulbhushan Kushal, N. K. Neb
The book traces the changing pattern of thematic concerns and narrative form at different stages of the development of Indian-English fiction. The book includes articles on the fictional works of the writers from the first to the second and the contemporary generation of Indian-writers in English. The papers included in the book exhibit the scholarly interests of different critics and the clarity of thought required to explicate literary works effectively.
CONTENTS
Reflections of Changing Values in Indo-Anglian Fiction
Structural Interplay In Kamala Markandaya's The Coffer Dams
Social Change in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable
Cultural Dilemmas And Displacements of Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
Aesthetic And Thematic Structure of R.K. Narayan's The Guide And Arun Joshi's The Foreigner
Signification of Cultural Codes In Anita Desai's Fasting Feasting
Jhumpa Lahiri : The Interpreter of Migrant Maladies
Beyond Diasporic Imagination : The Existential Predicament of Mrs. Das In Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Interpreter of Maladies'
An Approach to V.S. Naipaul's Aesthetics of Marginality
Paradigms of Multiculturalism and Failure of Indentity-Existential Parameters in Naipaul's A Bend in the River and Half a Life
Fasting Feasting : An Exploration
Destabilsation of Woman's Identity in A Married Woman : A Feminist Perspective
Dr. Ramesh K. Srivastava
Dr. G. D. Sharma
Dr. K.B. Kushal
Dr. Tejinder Kaur
Dr. P. S. Ramana
Dr. Ramandeep Singh Sandhu
Dr. Yubee Gill
Dr. Rabinder Powar
Dr. Rajinder Singh Jhanji
Dr. Sangeeta Handa
Dr. Anita Kiran
Dr. N.K. Neb
Culture in Transition : A Study of Contemporary Indian English-Fiction (Rs. 300 (2004) N.K. NebThe book consists of ten different articles on contemporary Indian-English fiction writers. The study explorers multiple aspects of Indian-English fiction that mark a shift in the nature of its content and form. It involves the intervention of different theoretical perspectives used to study and analyse literature in general and fiction in particular. The major theoretical frameworks applied for the study include, the feminist, post-colonial, structural analysis, post-modernist, psychoanalytical and realistic. The detailed Introduction to the study provides a valuable overview of the emerging trends in contemporary Indian l i fe and the subsequent shift informing the nature of fictional works. The book, no doubt, is a useful tool to understand the evolving form of contemporary Indian-English fiction.
CONTENTS
Foreword : Dr. Gurupdesh Singh
Introduction
Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace : A Counter Narrative of Postcoloniality
Shashi Tharoor's Riot : Popular Expression to Contemporary History
Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters : An Expression of Indian Feminism
Anita Desai's Fasting Feasting : A Submerged Iceberg
Author as an Amused Observer in Shobha De's Socialite Evenings
Construction of Narrative in Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies
Naipaul's Half A Life : An Experience In Exile
G o k h a l e ' s G o d s G r a v e s a n d Grandmother : A Study in the Sacred and the Profane
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies : An Exploration of the Fictional Art
Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters : A Study of Contemporary Reality
Bibliography
Index
Perspectives on Diaspora Indian Fiction in English
(Rs. 300) (2005)
Dr. Manjit Inder Singh
Dr. Swaraj Raj
Dr. Manju Jaidka
Dr. Rama Kundu
Dr.Rajtinder Singh Jhanji
Dr. G. Manoja
Dr. Jasbir Jain
Dr. Jagroop Singh
Dr. N.K. Neb
Dr. P.S. Ramana
Dr. Poornima
Dr. Tejinder Kaur
Dr. Swaraj Raj
Dr. Sangeeta Handa
Dr. Rajesh Kumar Sharma
ed. Tejinder Kaur, N.K. NebThe present book undertakes the study of different thematic patterns and fictional art of diaspora Indian-fiction in English. The articles concentrating on the theoretical framework highlight major common aspects of diaspora experience and common diaspora concerns. The book includes papers that can be of great help to the students of literature and the scholars concentrating on research in diaspora studies and the emergence of new patterns of life with cross-cultural interaction. The variety of articles and the research oriented presentation by different scholars makes this book extremely useful.
CONTENTS
Contemporary Diasporic Discourse : Towards Understanding Cultural Dialogics
Theorizing Diaspora Poetics And Diaspora Literature
Travelling With Walls : The South-Asian Intellectual In The United States
G. Ramsay Muir or 'The Unbearable Lightness of [Diasporic] being'
Mimicry as Subterfuge : A Study Of The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage Of Elvira And Miguel Street
War Within War
Stranger Come Home : Itwaru's The Unreturning And Karodia's Daughters of the Twilight
Socio-Political Concerns In Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance
Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters : An Exploration of Diasporic Life
Jhumpa Lahiri Problematising Marriage In Interpreter of Maladies
Changing Patterns of Human Relationships In Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
Transformation Of The Female Protagonist's Subjectivity In The Diaspora Space In Kavita Daswani's For Matrimonial Purposes
Emergence Of New Identities In Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine And Desirable Daughters
Hari Kunzru's Transmission : A Critique of New Global World Order
Diasporic Dialectics And The Politics of Cinematic Representation : Looking through American Desi
Contemporary Literary Criticism: A Select Study
(Rs. 150, (2006), ISBN:81-902800-2-3)
N. K. Neb,
The study concentrates on major critical essays by different critics that represent different critical approaches. The critical perceptions explained in simple and lucid terms, making minimum use of critical jargon, make this book a useful student-companion for beginners. The major points related to each critical essay are given to make the study effective and easily understandable. The use of cross references and meta-criticism makes this book extremely useful for the purposes of research :
CONTENTSIntroduction T. S. Eliot's “ Tradition and Individual Talent” : A Critique T. S. Eliot's ' The Frontiers Of Criticism' : An Attempt to Define The Scope of Criticism W. K. Wimset Jr. and Monore Beardsley's ' The Intentional Falacy' : A Study Northrop Frye's ' The Archetypes of Literature' : A Study Russian Formalism And Viktor Shklovsky's “ Art as Technique” Trilling's 'Freud and Literature': A Critical Study Terry Eagleton and Marxist Literary Criticism Toril Moi's Feminist Literary Criticism : A Critique Edward Said's ' Crisis In Orientalism Roman Jackobson 's ' Linguistics and Poetics' : A Study Barthes's Structural Analysis of Narratives and Structuralism Roland Barthes's ' The Death of The Author' : A Study Deconstruction and Christopher Norris's “ Jacques Derrida: Language Against Itself” Wolfgang Iser's ' The Reading Process : A Phenomenological Approach' : A Study Bibliography
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Perspectives on the Partition Fiction of
the Indian Sub-continent
, 2 0 0 7 ( I S B N : 8 1 -902800-4-X)
Ed. Tejinder Kaur, K. B. Kushal, N K Neb
The immense critical r e s p o n s e t o t h e literature on partition makes a broader study of this literature almost an imperative. The present book includes critical responses to the par t i t ion f ic t ion in different languages i nc lud ing Eng l i sh , Punjabi and Sindhi. Not only the number of articles but also the intensity with which they explore the partition fiction brings out the relevance of the fiction
CONTENTS
Introduction
Sanitized Silence : Towards a Theory of the Pa r t i t i on Nove l i n E n g l i s h
Literal History and Historical Literature : The Event and i ts Aftermath
Fate or the will of Men : Representation of the Partition in Ice-candy-Man
D r . Madhusudan Prasad, Alok Kumar
Dr. Jaya Chakravarty
Dr. K. Ratna Shiela Mani
Narratives of the Silence : An Analysis of the Partition Narratives
Two Facets of Partition : The Feminine and The Other
'Our Look ing-g lass Border' : A Critique of Partition Theme in The Shadow L ines
Par t i t i on F i c t i on : Between Madness And H u m a n i s m
Crisis of Identity and The Plight of the Refugees : A Study of Short Stories on The Partition
Vignettes of Partition in Two Short Stories
Partit ion of Mind : Conflicting Emotions in Amrita Pritam's Pinjjar
Political Fiction : A Reading of Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in The Ganges
Partition Violence : A Study of A Bend in The Ganges
The Whirligig of Partition : Ideals and Their Counter in Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in The Ganges
An Appraisal of Some Indian English Novels on The Partition of India
Chaman Nahal's Azadi : A Classic Novel on Partition
A River with Three Banks : A Partition Novel
Trauma of Partition in Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan
Dr. Sudip Minhas
Gurpreet Kaur (Cookie Maini)
Dr. Jagroop Singh
D r . Praveen Mirdha
Dr. Vinod K. Chopra
Dr. Jyoti Singh
Dr. Bhagyashree S. Verma
Dr. Ritu Parna
Dr. Manisha Gahelot
Dr. Monika Sethi
Dr. Ashok Mahashabde
Dr. N. S. Gundur
Dr. Samita Jha
Dr. C. L. Khatri
Two Facets of Train to Pakistan
The Theme of Partition in Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-candy-Man
Tamas, Ice-candy-Man, Azad i A L i te ra ry R e s p o n s e t o t h e Partition of India
Fingering the Jagged Grain in Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice candy-Man
Manto and Punjabi Short Story Writers
Inversion of the Binary : Sani ty / Insani ty in Manto 's “Toba Tek Singh”
Mutilated Identities : Partition in the Stories of Sa'adat Hasan Manto
Beyond Boundaries : A Study of Sa'adat Hasan Manto 's Stor ies in M o t t l e d D a w n
Partition and Sindhi Short-story
Portrayal of the Trauma of Partition in Punjabi Fiction
Documentation of a Utopia Lost in Partition Frenzy
The Violence the Body Remembers : An Analysis of Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers
Partition in Retrospect a n d P r o s p e c t : Diaspora's Response
Dr. Bhaskar Roy Barman
Dr. Vandana Singh
Dr. Nivedita Maitra
Dr. J a s m i n d e r S i n g h Dhillon
Dr. Tejwant Singh Gill
Dr. Subhash Chandra
Dr. Rashmi Gaur & Shabnam Hamid
D r. Sangeeta Handa
Dr. Jagdev Singh
Dr. Gurdev Singh Chandi
Dr. Indu Singh
Dr. Swaraj Raj
Dr. Tejinder Kaur
INSIGHT: A Study of the Poetry of Kulbhushan Kushal
, 2008, Rs.300 (ISBN:81-902800-6-6)
N.K.Neb
The exploration of the thematic and the artistic features of Kulbhushan Kushal’s poetry, discussed in the book, relate to the emerging trends in Indian English Poetry. The study analyses how poetry sensitizes the readers to the existential problems of
CONTENTS
Evolving Nature of Kushal's Poetry: Shrinking Horizons to Whirlpool of Echoes
Progression of the Poetic Self : An Insight Into Kulbhushan
Kushal's Poetry
The Poetry of Kulbhushan Kushal: An Overview
A Conversation with Kulbhushan Kushal
Kulbhushan Kushal's Rainbow on Rocks: The Poetry of Psychic Concerns
The Poetry of Kulbhushan Kushal: An Existentialist Study
The Poetry of Kulbhushan Kushal: A Critique of Contemporary Reality and Concern for Values
The Poetic Art of Kulbhushan Kushal : A Critical Study
Conclusion
Bibliography
man and provides aesthetic pleasure through the magic of words. The perspectives applied to study the poetic art of Kulbhushan Kushal can go a long way in providing valuable insights for the study of this verbal art.
The Novels of M.G. Vassanji : A Study in Diasporic Experiences ( ,2009,Rs.600, ISBN:81-902800-7-4).Ajay Sareen
The bookexplores multiple aspects of diasporic life and its fictional presentation. It examines the implications of history, identity and memory in the life and experiences of the displaced and the rootless depicted against the background of multicultural societies and in different
CONTENTS
Introduction
A Collage of Memories: The Gunny Sack
Quest for Identity: No New Land
A Journey from Past to Present: The Book of Secrets
Uncertainties of Hybrid Identity: Amriika
Dislocations Across Time: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
political contexts. The book forms the study of thematic and artistic aspects of Vassanji’s fictional art along with a special emphasis on his depiction of diasporic life.
Reflections on Contemporary Indian English Fiction ,2011,Rs.1000)ISBN:81-902800-8-2)
(ed.K.B.Kushal,N.K.Nebcritically examines
diverse thematic paradigms in the redefined perspect ives of postcolonial thought perceptions and narrative techniques based on neoreal ism, social displacement and surrealism. This study demystifies the new narrative designs and examines the changes in the art of story- telling. In the process it brings out the intervention of different material, theoretical and philosophical elements that mark a
CONTENTSIntroduction
Lives of Loss : Travails of Diaspora Journey and Existence in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
Speech and Silence of a ‘Migrant Novel’: Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant : A Counter Narrative to Diasporic View
Colonizing the Mind: Civilizational Imperialism and Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things : A Foucauldian Reading
Dialogics of Novelisation in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines
Resisting the Oppressions of Patriarchy through Female Bonding : A Study of Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time
Contextualizing Desecration of Women : Gendered Violence in Sidhwa’s Cracking India
Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters : Critique of Ethnic Discourse
The Polemics of Identity in Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist : A Post-modern Perspective
Modernism / Postmodernism in Shashi Tharoor’s Riot
Interaction of Theme and Character in The Serpent and the Rope
Shifting Paradigms and The Fictional World of Shobha De
Beyond Illusions: An Existentialistic Appraisal of V. S. Naipaul’s Magic Seeds
Contributors and Editors
Index
Dr. Tejinder Kaur
Dr. P.S. Ramana
Dr. N. K. Neb
Dr. Jagroop Singh
Anand Bajaj
Seema Singh
Dr. Sunita Goyal
Manmeet Sodhi
Dr. Jagroop Singh
Dr. Rohit Phutela
Surekha
Dr. Kulbhushan Kushal
Dr. N. K. Neb
Surekha
Comprehensive English Grammar ( With Notes On Pronunciation )
(Rs. 220 ,2011)N. K.
NebSta r t i ng f rom bas ic grammatical concepts, the book includes different ru les and exerc ises related to almost all the a s p e c t s o f a p p l i e d grammar. The exercises o n t e n s e s , v o i c e , narration, parts of speech, p h r a s e s , c l a u s e s , identification and the use of different items of g r a m m a r p r o v i d e comprehensive practice. T h e c h a p t e r s o n prepositions, determiners, use of idioms, vocabulary, the words often confused in usage and punctuation make the book extremely useful for writing correct English. The chapter on Pronunciation has been designed to introduce s o m e b a s i c p o i n t s regarding pronunciation. The explorat ive and illustrative rather than exhaustive nature of the material used in the book is intended to make the book learner- friendly.
discernible shift in the nature of Indian English fiction and its study.
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