Indian Novels in English

Texts, Contexts and Language

by Jaydeep Sarangi

2018172 pages

About the book

To deal with the gap between the alien language and native contexts, the Indian authors writing in English did experiments and utilised creative resourceswith the English language at the levels of morphology, vocabulary, syntax, phonetics, grammar and punctuation to record and portray socio-cultural ethos authentically and realistically through a languageredolent with social and individual.It brings out conversations as a cooperative and collaborative activity. The book is strategic. It re-placespreconceived ideas notions in a new cultural position.

“This elegant monograph on the modern Indian novel in English offers a synoptic and yet in-depth study of a rich tradition, and is useful for students and teachers alike.”
– Sumanyu Satpathy, Fellow, IIAS, Shimla and Former Professor of English, Delhi University
“In this postcolonial study of the Indian English Novel, Jaydeep Sarangi shows how the bilingualism of Indian writers enriches their fictional narratives. The transformation that is emergent through subsequent decades, reflecting the colonial and postcolonial encounters of the local with the global, are analysed in this seminal sociolinguistic consideration of regional parameters. The distinctiveness lent by the mother tongue, the contextual flavours, the cultural nuancesare probed by Sarangi to establish the complex creative process that has gone into the nativisation of the Indian English Novel, giving it the dual appeal ofbeing rooted and anchored in its history and tradition and universal in its outlook and embrace.”
– Bashabi Fraser , Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland