Name Me a Word : Indian Writers Reflect on Writing / / Meena Alexander

• Pubblicazione: New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (437 pages)
• Disciplina: 891.4/08/954
• Soggetto topico: Indic literature - 21st century - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: India In literature; India Literary collections
• Persona (resp. second.): AlexanderMeena
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 -- Sarojini Naidu 1879-1949 -- Premchand (Dhanpat Rai) 1880-1936 -- Nirad C. Chaudhuri 1897-1999 -- Jibanananda Das 1899-1954 -- R. K. Narayan 1906-2001 -- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer 1908-1994 -- Raja Rao 1908-2006 -- Lalithambika Antherjanam 1909-1987 -- Agyeya (Sachchidananda Vatsayan) 1911-1987 -- Umashankar Joshi 1911-1988 -- Saadat Hasan Manto 1912-1955 -- Ismat Chugtai 1915-1991 -- Amrita Pritam 1919-2005 -- Nissim Ezekiel 1924-2004 -- Mahasweta Devi 1926-2016 -- Nayantara Sahgal b. 1927 -- Qurratulain Hyder 1928-2007 -- Jayanta Mahapatra b. 1928 -- A. K. Ramanujan 1929-1993 -- Nirmal Verma 1929-2005 -- K. Ayyappa Paniker 1930-2006 -- Arun Kolatkar 1931-2004 -- U. R. Ananthamurthy 1932-2014 -- Kamala Das 1934-2009 -- Keki Daruwalla b. 1937 -- Anita Desai b. 1937 -- Girish Karnad b. 1938 -- Nabaneeta Dev Sen b. 1938 -- Adil Jussawalla b. 1940 -- Ambai (C. S. Lakshmi) b. 1944 -- Paul Zacharia b. 1945 -- K. Satchidanandan b. 1946 -- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra b. 1947 -- Salman Rushdie b. 1947 -- Agha Shahid Ali 1949-2001 -- Namdeo Dhasal 1949-2014 -- Meena Alexander b. 1951 -- Githa Hariharan b. 1954 -- Vijay Seshadri b. 1954 -- Amitav Ghosh b. 1956 -- Raghavan Atholi b. 1957 -- Jeet Thayil b. 1959 -- Arundhati Roy b. 1961 -- Amit Chaudhuri b. 1962 -- Sudeep Sen b. 1964 -- Arundhathi Subramaniam b. 1967 -- S. Sukirtharani b. 1973 -- Acknowledgments -- Credits
• Sommario/riassunto: A wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century and contemporary writing from India and the Indian diaspora, curated by a distinguished scholar and poet Internationally renowned scholar, poet, and essayist Meena Alexander brings together leading twentieth- and twenty-first-century voices from India and the diaspora in this anthology. Contributors include English-language luminaries such as R. K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, and Arundhati Roy and powerful writers in Indian languages such as U. R. Ananthamurthy, Mahasweta Devi, and Lalithambika Antherjanam. This book will make a thoughtful gift for poetry and fiction enthusiasts and fans of Indian literature, as well as an ideal volume for academics introducing writers from the subcontinent.
• Titolo autorizzato: Name Me a Word
• ISBN: 0-300-23565-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827987003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II