9788176257350 - Australian Literature by Unknown Author (4 results)

Condition: New. pp. xv + 188 Index.

Condition: New. pp. xv + 188.

The poems of this collection have been written over a long stretch of time--say about more than thirty years It will be more apparent from the period frames of some of the poems written upon some important landmarks of recent world historyAlthough the subject matter and the period of reference are varied yet they may form a new whole in the vein of Robert Lowells conceptualization of one man one poem This is why the title of the collection is not the title of any one of the poems In my opinion the common practice of naming the whole book by one of the titles of the poems is a practice not justifiable to the other ingredients of the book The name of the book must represent the book as whole not only a part of itIt will be quite pertinent to have a note about the state of poetry in the present scenario It has been told that poetry now a days is in shade The light of day is very difficult for her Many writers and critics have declared this age as the age of novels But novel is long and life short Time is receding each day Poetry speaks little and in little length Nevertheless she is a little voice with large intentions Poetry tries to capture this big world in a short way Poetry must have its proper place in this fast becoming prosaic world It  will require nothing but coming out of ones prejudice conditioning and false opinion And many times poetry ask questions answers of which need to be searched and found But at times there is no answers In that case the questions are meant to keep us awake and alert and independent of thoughtIt has been said by Wordsworth that poetry is the fine breathe of all human knowledge This human knowledge is imbued with music and feelings It may be realized that poetry can be held as the ultimate of human knowledge in the same way as music is the ultimate of human feelings and sexreproduction is the ultimate of humananimal biologyNow the lines are here words are here with various spaces among them They are open to meaning conjecture and guess Life lives on jacket 144 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Shellshocks and aftershocks scars of the Holocaust problematizing identity in Elizabeth Jolley's Milk and Honey/V. Lakshmanan. 2. The other space Jack Davis No sugar/Tapati Gupta. 3. Irony as protest a reading of They Give Jacky Rights/Debi Prasad Bhattacharya. 4. The beginning of a novel is a belief that the world really needs this book Thomas Keneally's Oeuvre with special reference to The Tyrant's Novel/Somdatta Mandal. 5. It is our dreaming A Russian ethnographer meets the Australian Aborigine/Himadri Lahiri. 6. Giving voice to the voiceless The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith/Amrit Sen. 7. Australianness and beyond transcultural spaces in the poetry of Syd Harrex/Keya Majumdar. 8. Narratives of resistant marginality Patrick White and Firdaus Kanga/Niladri R. Chatterjees. 9. Beyond the pleasures of otherness Mudrooroo Narogin's politics of aboriginality/Debasish Lahiri. 10. Whiteness under dark skins/darkness under white skins Kim Scott's tryst with aboriginal identity in Benang/Indrani Datta (Chaudhuri). 11. Capture of the body or of the mind reconnecting Fraser's narrative with A Fringe of Leaves/Antara Mukherjee. 12. David Malouf's exploration of the problem of identity a reading of remembering Babylon/Sriparna Dutta. 13. Foucault Mudrooroo and the Panoptican A study of Mudrooroo's Wild Cat screaming/Sagar Dan. 14. The high lean country full of old stories Judith Wright and the birth of a nation/Partha Pratim Dasgupta. 15. The poems of Henry Lawson A Smorgasbord Soaked in smiles and tears/Binod Mishra. 16. Aboriginal Reality in Jack Davis's Barungin (Smell the wind)/Ramanuj Konar. 17. Aesthetcizing aboriginality in Jack Davis No Sugar/S. Robert Gnanamony. 18. Challenging the British inheritance the poetry of A.D. Hope and Judith Wright/Indranil Acharya. 19. Post colonial waters contextualizing river poems of Peter Porter and John Kinsella/Angshuman Kar. 20. Problematics of Home and place in Martin Flanagan's In Sunshine or in Shadow/Suranjana Bhadra. Index. Intellectual Australian interest is not a new phenomenon. Homi K. Bhabha declares in Nation and Narration that The Nations of Europe and Asia meet in Australia. It happens to be a seemingly simple statement for an immensely varied geographical cultural linguistic and literary space. A settler colony is a space to reconcile indigenous and settler population. Australia is essentially a multicultural and multiethnic country. It is suggested that Australia created its own literature from a combination of the British American and native sources. In this fast changing political social and cultural milieu of our times everything has undergone a sea change. Inter disciplinary and transcultural studies are made so that men understand one another in a better way. Everything is perpetually in process of cohesion and dissolution. This special anthology of critical essays we believe will play a vital role in transmitting knowledge to the readers about higher areas of learning. 188 pp.