Language: English
Author: D.R. Rajan Lal
Description: The present book, Indian English Fiction: Recent Critical Dimensions, explores multiple perspectives in contemporary Indian English novels, including feminine sensibility, gender sensitization, gender discrimination, male hegemony, conventional and cruel patriarchy, the concept of the free woman, sexuality, childhood trauma and abuse, misuse of Section 498A of the IPC, and the deconstruction and rewriting of mythological Indian scriptures. It also addresses subaltern spaces, individual narrative techniques, marital freedom, myths and folklore, ecocritical issues, multigenerational bonds, obsession with cricket, the blending of myth and fiction, social protest, hypocrisy, casteism, corruption, diasporic voices, the interface of mythology, philosophy, and history, mini-narratives and fragmentation, socio-economic inequalities, and resistance, among other themes, as expressed by various recent Indian English novelists.