Creative Neighbours : SAARC Writing in English

Contents: Acknowledgements. Prologue. 1. Kazi Nazrul Islam a poet extra-ordinary. 2. Communalism and literature writings from Bangladesh. 3. The Circle of Karma: Journeys of the vagrant spirit. 4. The Balladry of the Bhutanese Lo-Zey: A critique of the Ballad of Pemi Tshewang Tashi. 5. Contemporary Indian fiction in English. 6. Violence, identity and narrative: a quest for harmony. 7. Decoding the Maldivian Milieu: a note on the Maldivian poetry in English. 8. Modern Nepali Poetry--a note. 9. The Pakistani perception of the partition trauma. 10. Woman, the eternal colony of man: Tehmina Durrani's Self Experiences. 11. A critique of Siddiqi's God's Own Land. 12. Culture-consciousness and gender bias in Bapsi Sidhwa's The Pakistani Bride: a post colonial approach. 13. Pakistani Poetry in English: an overview. 14. Images of the sub-continent in Sri Lankan Writing in English. 15. Yakada Yaka Carl Muller's Faction-Fiction. 16. The Jam Fruit Tree: a study of a Sri Lankan Novel. 17. Cultural clash, confusion and final assimilation in three SAARC Novels. 18. Archetypes of cultural homogeneity in SAARC Poetry. 19. Harmonic idiom through identity code: a note on SAARC Poetry. Contributors. From the Prologue: "The present book contains papers on different aspects of SAARC Writing in English. They are arranged country-wise in the alphabetical order. The first two papers on Bangladesh introduce the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam and examine reflection of communalism in the writings of Bangladesh. Bhutanese Lo-Zey and a novel The Circle of Karma are the subject matter of Bhutanese section. There are two papers on India, one analysing contemporary trends in Indian fiction and another expatiating upon violence, identity and narrative as tools of eventual and cathartic communal harmony. There is a survey of Maldivian poetry and a note on the poetry of Nepal. Pakistan figures prominently as the book has three papers analysing three novels and the fourth on partition fiction. The book has analysed two novels of Sri Lanka and a Sri Lankan novelist himself has examined the image of India in Sri Lankan fiction. Besides these, there are three thematic papers on the cultural aspects of SAARC.".…