Mulk Raj Anand : early novels

著者

    • Goswami, Ketaki

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Mulk Raj Anand : early novels

Ketaki Goswami

PHI Learning, 2009

  • : pbk.

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"Eastern economy edition"--Cover

Includes index

Includes bibliographical references

For the undergraduate and postgraduate level students of English Literature

内容説明・目次

内容説明

But the credit for placing Indo-Anglian writing on a high pedestal should go to earlier writers like Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao. Among these, Mulk Raj Anand has a unique place because of the ideals and ideas he espoused through his novels. This concise book deals with Anand s three early novels Coolie, Untouchable, and Two Leaves and a Bud and a few short stories, which were conceived, written and published during the colonial period the Raj. It also includes critical essays on such themes as Life and Art, Themes and Applications, Anand and His Use of Language and a study on the Women in Anand s Short Stories. Dr. Ketaki Goswami, with her erudition and scholarship and research findings on Mulk Raj Anand s works, brings out the quintessential Anand the messiah of the downtrodden, the unwanted and the unloved. For, Anand intricately weaves through his novels, the theme of exploitation and the apathy, the indifference and the condescending attitude of the affluent towards the marginalized sections of the society whose pangs and pains wrenched his heart. Anand s life-long quest was to show love and compassion to the poor as also to alleviate their pains and give a magic touch to the downtrodden to make their lives bearable. In all the three novels and the short stories discussed in the book, the author shows that the novelist believed that the Summum bonum of a human being is living a life with dignity which has been denied to the lower castes and the outcasts the lower dregs of humanity because of the repulsive attitude of the rich. Being a humanist of the highest order, Anand concerns himself with the whole man, his development, sense of dignity and decency in living.

目次

  • 1. Life and Art
  • 2. Themes and Applications
  • 3. Coolie: A Socio-realistic Novel
  • 4. Untouchable: A Journey from Despair to Hope
  • 5. Rage and Humour in Combination
  • 6. Two Leaves and a Bud: An Assessment
  • 7. Gendered Assessment
  • 8. Anand and His Use of Language
  • 9. Colonialism and Literature
  • Appendix: 'A Parrot in the Cage': A Study of the Claustrophobic Existence of Women in Anand's Short Stories
  • Index.

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