Locating the Anglo-Indian self in Ruskin Bond
Subtitle: a postcolonial review
By: Debashis Bandyopadhyay
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9789380601045
Subjects: History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Anglo-Indian literature; Self-perception in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading 'self' in a semi-autobiographical author; title: Sense of exile: an Anglo-Indian context; title: Text versus context: space and time in the room on the roof and vagrants in the valley; title: Quest for an authentic literary grain: two versions of 'The eyes are not here'; title: Conscious/unconscious dialectic: stories of the mid-career; title: Invoking history to resist drives: tension revisited in a flight of pigeons; title: Self in abject space: 'The playing fields of Shimla'; title: Self in liminal space.