Commonwealth literature in English : past and present

CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 10
COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE: PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY (WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE REMAINS OF THE DAY)......Page 14
R.N. TAGORE'S TREATMENT OF LOVE: THE HIGHEST MANIFESTATION OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 41
RE-INTERPRETATION OF MYTH IN SRI AUROBINDO'S SAVITRI......Page 52
RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA'S THE HOUSEHOLDER: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION......Page 67
INFLUENCE ON MANOHAR MALGONKAR......Page 83
THE SEEKING SELF IN THE NOVELS OF ANITA DESAI......Page 96
THE ART OF CHARACTERIZATION IN THE NOVELS OF SHASHI DESHPANDE......Page 116
ARUNDHATI ROY'S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS: A STUDY IN THEME AND TECHNIQUE......Page 136
AMITAV GHOSH'S IN AN ANTIQUE LAND: A POST-MODERNIST'S RENDEZVOUS WITH HISTORY......Page 153
THE REFUGEE AND NAXAL NEXUS IN ASIF CURRIMBHOY'S 'BENGAL TRILOGY' : A SOCIO·CRITICAL EXPLICATION......Page 163
CULTURE CLASH, CONFUSION AND FINAL ASSIMILATION: A STUDY OF IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN A CHANGE OF SKIES BY YASMINE GUNARATNE, AN AMERICAN BRAT BY BAPSI SIDHWA, AND JASMINE BY BHARATI MUKHERJEE......Page 177
INDIA AS REVEALED IN V.S.NAIPAUL'S INDIA: A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION AND PEGGY PAYNE'S SISTER INDIA......Page 195
TEHMINA DURRANI'S BLASPHEMY: A STUDY OF SOCIO-RELIGIO DECADENCE......Page 204
TEHMINA DURRANI'S BLASPHEMY FROM A MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVE......Page 212
MARGARET LAURENCE, CARL JUNG AND THE MANAWAKA WOMEN......Page 217
NEGRITUDE IN NADINE GORDIMER'S MAJOR NOVELS......Page 240
IDEOLOGICAL CLASH BETWEEN PRIMITIVISM AND MODERNISM: A THEMATIC STUDY OF CHINUA ACHEBE'S NOVELS THINGS FALL APART AND ARROW OF GOD......Page 249
TASLIMA NASRIN'S FRENCH LOVER: A FLAWED JOURNEY TOWARDS SELF-DISCOVERY......Page 262
CUTTING EDGES: BIOLOGY OF EXPERIENCE IN THE WORKS OF THE NOBEL LAUREATE PATRICK WHITE......Page 270
THE TAMIL MIND AND IDENTITY IN SRI LANKAN TAMIL SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH: REPRESENTATIVE OR LOPSIDED?......Page 286