Modern Indian Poetry in English
This book, now in a revised edition, is a comprehensive study of modern Indian poetry in English. It is a history and analysis of the most important poets (such as Nissim Ezekial, A.K. Ramanujan and Dom Moraes), books and journals, along with an analysis of the social basis of Indian English-language poetry. This edition includes an updated chronology, an extended essay on Agha Shahid Ali, and two chapters on significant new, younger poets.
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This book, now in a revised edition, is a comprehensive study of modern Indian poetry in English. It is a history and analysis of the most important poets (such as Nissim Ezekial, A.K. Ramanujan and Dom Moraes), books and journals, along with an analysis of the social basis of Indian English-language poetry. This edition includes an updated chronology, an extended essay on Agha Shahid Ali, and two chapters on significant new, younger poets.
IIntroduction1IIHistory and publishing circles11IIIThe poets, their readers and the market47IVTowards a canon60VPoetics and criticism73VIEzekiel and his influence91VIIThe poet's India I : Ezekiel, Ramanujan, Patel, Daruwalla, Shiv Kumar110VIIIThe poet's India II : Peeradina, Rodrigues, de Souza, Shetty, Silgardo129IXWomen's voices : Kamala Das, de Souza, Silgardo147XTwo bilingual experimentalists : Kolatkar and Chitre162XIExperimentalists II : Mehrotra and Mahapatra183XIIExile : Ramanujan, Sharat Chandra, Kumar, Nazareth, Seth209XIIIAnd return : Parthasarathy and Jussawalla231XIVThe diaspora : Agha Shahid Ali's tricultural Nostalgia257XVPublishing 1987-99275XVIMaturity : Moraes, Peeradina, Ramanujan, Patel, Shetty, Mehrotra, Daruwalla, de Souza, Alexander295XVIINew women poets : Shivdasani, Patel, D'Souza, Sambrani, Dharker, Divakaruni, Bhatt312XVIIINew poets, styles, and feelings : Hoskote, Thayil, Surendran, Nambisan, Merchant, Rao, Padhi, Khair, Prasad, Ramakrishnan333Chronology of significant publications, journals and events, 1947-99355
