Contemporary Poets in English

"The volume comprises fifteen perceptive essays on six major contemporary Indian poets in English, viz., Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Dom Moraes, Kamala Das, Mamta Kalia and Imtiaz Dharker. These poets represent various significant aspects of contemporary poetic sensibility and their importance is both intrinsic and historical. These essays are marked by a uniformity of theme and approach in that they grapple with the complexities of what has now been universally acknowledged as the modernist (and for some post- and for others anti-) tradition of Indian literature in English. In view of Ezekiels pioneering role in transforming the idiom of contemporary poetry, the volume specifically focuses on all the major components of his creative personality - the cross-cultural concern, the nature of expatriate experience and nuances of postcoloniality. Ezekiels fellow-contemporary, A.K. Ramanujan had virtually become ambassador de letters or what he mockingly called hyphen in Indian-Ame

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Surya Nath Pandey
• Editore: Rawat Pubn
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9788131600665
• ISBN: 978-81-316-0066-5
• Pagine: 224
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature