The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium

The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium is a book of sixteen pieces of scholarly critique on recent Indian novels written in the English language; some on specific literary trends in fictional writing and others on individual texts published in the twenty-first century by contemporary Indian novelists such as Amitav Ghosh, Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, K. N. Daruwalla, Upamanyu Chatterjee, David Davidar, Esterine Kire Iralu, Siddharth Chowdhury and Chetan Bhagat. The volume focuses closely on the defining features of the different emerging forms of the Indian English novel, such as narratives of female subjectivity, crime fiction, terror novels, science fiction, campus novels, animal novels, graphic novels, disability texts, LGBT voices, dalit writing, slumdog narratives, eco-narratives, narratives of myth and fantasy, philosophical novels, historical novels, postcolonial and multicultural narratives, and Diaspora novels. A select bibliography of recent Indian English novels from 2001-2013 has been given especially for the convenience of the researchers. The book will be of great interest and benefit to college and university students and teachers of Indian English literature.

Prabhat K. Singh is Professor in the Department of English and Other Foreign Languages, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith University, Varanasi, India, and is a literary critic and bilingual poet and translator. He has published eleven books of critical and creative writings to his credit and thirty research papers in Indian and foreign journals, and has attended and chaired more than forty national and international seminars and conferences both in India and abroad. A recipient of the National Millennium Honour 2000 and the Michael Madhusudan Award 2003, he has been on academic visits to several countries of South East Asia and Europe.