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With the publication of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize winning novel, ^IMidnight's Children^R in 1981, followed by the unprecedented popularity of his subsequent works, the cinematic adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's ^IThe English Patient,^R many other best-sellers written by South Asian novelists writing in English have gained a tremendous following. This reference is a guide to their lives and writings. The volume focuses on novelists born in South Asia who have written and continue to write about issues concerning that region. Some of the novelists have published widely, while others are only beginning their literary careers.
The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries on more than 50 South Asian novelists. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the novelist's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. Since many of the contributors are personally acquainted with the novelists, they are able to offer significant insights. The volume closes with a selected bibliography of studies of the South Asian novel in English, along with a list of anthologies and periodicals.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Meena Alexander by Lavina Shankar
Mulk Raj Anand by Rochelle Almeida
Anjana Appachana by Lara Kattekola
Jean Arasanayagam by Chelva Kanaganayakam
Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni by Lavina Shankar
Vikram Chandra by Doug Payne
Upamanyu Chatterjee by Rochelle Almeida
Amit Chaudhuri by Purvi Shah
Nirad Chaudhuri by Pallavi Rastogi
Kamala Das by Manju Jaidka
Anita Desai by P. S. Chauhan
Shashi Deshpande by Josna Rege
Farukh Dhondy by Sangeeta Mediratta
Indira Ganesan by Sangeeta Mediratta
Zulfikar Ghose byWaqas Ahmad Khwaja
Amitav Ghosh by Bakirathi Mani
Yasmine Gooneratne by Walter Perera
James Goonewardene by Nihal Fernando
Romesh Gunasekera by Gautam Kundu
Sunetra Gupta by Vijaylaxmi Chauhan
Kaizad Gustad by Jigna Desai
Mohsin Hamid by Waqas Ahmad Khwaja
Githa Hiraharan by Meenakshi Bharat
Raj Kamak Jha by Pallavi Rastogi
Firdaus Kanga by John Hawley
Manju Kapur by Pallavi Rastogi
Mukul Kesavan by Padmaja Challake
Adib Khan by Rebecca Sultana
Chandani Lokuge by Walter Perera
Manohar Malhaonkar by Janet Powers
Kamala Markandaya by Hena Ahmad
Gita Mehta by P. S. Chauhan
Ved Mehta by Sujata Iyengar
Pankaj Mishra by Rahul Gairola
Rohinton Mistry by Tess Chakkalakal
Bharati Mukherjee by Kellie Hozler
Kiran Nagarkar by Niti Sampat-Patel
Suniti Namjoshi by Harveen Mann
Kirin Narayan by Grant Farred
R. K. Narayan by John Lanagan
Michael Ondaatje by Anthony Guneratne
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro by Gita Rajan
Raja Rao by Janet Powers
Arundhati Roy by Emmanuel Nelson
Salman Rushdie by Michael Reder
Nayantara Sahgal by Jill Didur
I. Allan Sealy by Manju Jaidka
Shyam Selvadurai by Emmanuel Nelson
Vikram Seth by Anthony Guneratne
Bulbul Sharma by Natasha Vashisht
Bapsi Sidhwa by Feroza Jussawalla
Kushwant Singh by Doug Payne
Sara Suleri by Ambreen Hai
Manil Suri by Kellie Holzer
Shashi Tharoor by Gita Rajan
Ardashir Vakil by John Hawley
M. G. Vassanji by Marian Aguiar
Selected Bibliography
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
JAINA C. SANGA teaches cultural studies at Southern Methodist University. Her previous books include Salman Rushdie's Postcolonial Metaphors (2001) and South Asian Novelists in English (2003), both available from Greenwood Press.
