Understanding Mulk Raj Anand
Subtitle: his mind and art, critical essays and letters
By: K. D. Verma
Publisher: Vision Books Pvt. Ltd.
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9788170949916
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Understanding Mulk Raj Anand: His Mind and Art, a collection of critical essays and letters, examines Anand as a novelist, an art critic and a thinker in a broad cultural context of the 20th century critical theories of postmodernism, postcoloniality and new historicism. This study explores the significance of Anand's 20-year stay in England, especially the making of Anand the novelist, and also of Anand of the post-1945 era."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mulk Raj Anand: postcolonial and postmodern assessments; title: The metaphors of Untouchable and Coolie in Mulk Raj Anand'd novels Untouchable and Coolie and his sense of social justice; title: Notes toward a reading of Mulk Raj Anand's Across the Black Waters; title: The politics of cultural identity inMulk Raj Anand's The Bubble; title: An interview with Mulk Raj Anand; title: Mulk Raj Anand and realism; title: Intersections of Indian and Western aesthetics: Mulk Raj Anand as a critic of the arts; title: Reminiscences: selected letters of Mulk Raj Anand.