From Kipling's establishment of India as a major theme in English writing to the sexual adventures of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's American heroine and representative pieces from Indian post-independence literature, this further collections of stories provides a vivid portrait of a society in transition as late-imperial ennui gives way before the vibrancy of emerging nationhood.
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Indus
Release
January 01, 1986
ISBN
0586065261
ISBN 13
9780586065266
More Stories from the Raj and After: From Kipling to the Present Day
From Kipling's establishment of India as a major theme in English writing to the sexual adventures of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's American heroine and representative pieces from Indian post-independence literature, this further collections of stories provides a vivid portrait of a society in transition as late-imperial ennui gives way before the vibrancy of emerging nationhood.