Kamala Markandaya : A Critical Spectrum (Hardcover)  | Released: 2002

Indian English literature has established its credentials all over the world. Still litterateurs in this stream have to be continuously appraised and evaluated and key issues like the impact of multiculturality and the role assigned to women have to be confronted and analysed threadbare not merely in theory but also through the elucidation of key texts from this perspective. The present volume scrutinizes Kamala Markandayas corpus as part of this general critical endeavour. The volume comprises scholarly studies of Nectar In A sieve, Possession, A Handful of Rice, A silence of Desire and Pleasure City, besides examining in depth Kamala Markandayas rural sensibility, the silent saga of suffering chronicled in her novels, her philosophic vision of life, her portrayal of social tensions and her feminist poetics, taking a holistic view of her writings. An indispensable source of fresh and innovative insight into the making of Markandayas craft of fiction. A useful supplement to the existing studies of her novels. An original perspective on life, society, values, gender-issues and related areas for students, teachers, researchers working in the fields of Literary Theory, Fiction Studies, Aesthetics, Culture, Philosophy and the sociology of Literature.Table of Contents: 1. Kamala MarkandayaThe Insider-Outsider M.K. Bhatnagar 2. Rural India as Reflected in Kamala Markandayas Nectar in a Sieve Pradnya Vijay Ghorpade 3. Rural India in Transition: A Study of Kamala Markandayas Nectar in a Sieve C.K. Naik 4. A Vision of Life: Kamala Markandayas Nectar in a Sieve Ramesh Kumar Gupta 5. The Strugglers and the Survivors in Nectar in a Sieve K.V. Surendran 6. Nectar in a Sieve : A Saga of an All-out Human Effort and Enterprise Gajendra Kumar 7. Kamala Markandayas Nectar in a Sieve : As a Feminist Poetics Rakhi 8. Desperation and Aspiration : Heterogenous Phases in Kamala Markandayas Nectar in a Sieve and A Handful of Rice C. Anna Latha Devi 9. Crisis of Conscience: A Study of Kamala Markandayas A Handful of Rice S.P. Swain 10. Taming of the Crude: A Study of Kamala Markandayas Possession N.K. Mishra 11. The Unconscious Desire and its Fulfilment in Kamala Markandayas A Silence of Desire M. Rajeshwar 12. The Discourse of Resistance : A Reading of Kamala Markandayas Pleasure City D. Maya 13. A Pleasure City: The New Frontier Lakshmi Kumari 14. Victims and Survivors: Kamala Markandayas Indian Women Protagonists Asha Susan Jacob 15. Angrez in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya Rudra Prasad Mahto 16. The Social Values in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya Chhote Lal Khatri 17. Image and Symbol Pattern in Kamala Markandayas Novels F.A. Inamdar 18. Realism in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya Ambuj Kr. Sharma Bibliography