Multicultural Consciousness in the Novels of R. K. Narayan - Hardcover

K. V. Dominic

9788172736743: Multicultural Consciousness in the Novels of R. K. Narayan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8172736746 ISBN 13: 9788172736743

Publisher: Author Press, 2012

R. K. Narayan is considered by many critics in India and abroad as the best Indian novelist in English. He is the only great Indian writer in English who spent the whole of his life in India and portrayed the life and society around him. Many of Narayans novels have pre-independent India in the background or settings. They bring out the influence of Western values on the East, and conversely, the influence of Eastern values on the West. There are several occasions of confrontation between theses values but at the same time one finds assimilation, absorption and amalgamation of these cultural values throughout the novels. Prof. K. V. Dominic substantiates this multicultural consciousness analyzing several novels of Narayan in this book.

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About the Author:

Dr. K. V. Dominic (b. 1956), English poet, critic, editor and short-story writer, is a retired professor of the PG & Research Department of English, Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala, India. He has already authored and published many books, innumerable poems, critical essays, reviews, interviews and short stories. He is the Secretary of Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics (GIEWEC), Chief Editor of the biannual, International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML) and editor of the Guilds biannual journal, Writers Editors Critics (WEC).

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