Even a brief examination of some key moments in the evolution of India’s literature is enough to prove the variety as well as the common sources and concerns of our literatures. After more than...
Translation has also played a major role in promoting common trends and the employment of common norms and methods in Indian literary criticism. The translations of the fundamental texts of Indian poetics by Bharata,...
The translation of the Holy Bible was another important landmark in the development of prose in Indian languages. In most languages Bible got translated in the nineteenth century by missionaries- who also gave many...
It is in this background that the role of translation in the constitution of the idea of Indian literature gets foregrounded. It is well known that India has a translating consciousness and we keep...
However crossings of linguistic boundaries are so frequent in Indian literature that we find it difficult to divide our literature solely on the basis of language. In the words of the distinguished Marxist theoretician...
Whenever I think of Indian literature, a story retold by A. K. Ramanujan comes to mind: Hanuman reaches the netherworld in search of Rama’s ring that had disappeared through a hole. The King of...
The pessimistic and cynical Modernist vision however was challenged in the 1970 s by a group of politically conscious writers that included Anand, M. Sukumaran, Pattathuvila Karunakaran, U.P. Jayaraj, P. K. Nanu, C.R. Parameswaran...
Malayalam short story celebrated its centenary in 1991. During the one hundred and fifteen years of its dynamic existence it has passed through several phases in terms of theme and idiom, structure and ideology....
Bengal with its radical manipulation of archetypes, its mixing of the dramatic and narrative modes, its quick rhythms and refrains that capture the panic of the blind king and its interweaving of the history...
The modernists of the 60s had almost all been born in the villages and moved to towns and cities in search of a livelihood. The gradual deadening of progressive sensibilities, the dogmatism of Kerala’s...
