Ruskin Bond's Desh - Celebrating Root and Defining Identity

This book explores the dilemma of Bond's 'two selves' and his existential search for an identity. This exploration, analysed across six chapters, is informed by a variety of postcolonial, historical, informational and critical texts on Bond and Anglo-Indians. Arup Pal focuses on four key literary works of Bond-The Room on the Roof, A Flight of Pigeons, Scenes from a Writer's Life and A Handful of Nuts-from the perspective of the author's developing sense of personal, national and cultural identity. He traces the journey that the author and his protagonists embark on in order to seek and ultimately define their sense of being.

List of contents

Foreword by Professor Meena G. Khorana
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The Idea of the Self: Identity, Hyphenation and Problems of Definition
2. Desh-Videsh: Scenes as Dialectics of Homecoming
3. Intervening the Self: Developing Consciousness of Rusty in The Room on the Roof
4. Liberating Motherhood: Mariam Labadoor in A Flight of Pigeons
5. Dehra: Return to His Roots in A Handful of Nuts
6. 'The India I Carried with Me'
Index
About the Author

About the author

Arup Pal is Assistant Professor of English at Asutosh College, University of Calcutta.

Product details

• Authors: Arup Pal
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9789389000009
• ISBN: 978-93-89000-00-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 221 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Indien, Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, allgemein, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Indic