Post independence Voices in - South Asian Writings

Author: Alamgir HashmiMalashri Lal/Victor RamrajEditor(s): Alamgir Hashmi, Malashri Lal & Victor RamrajPublisher: AlhamraYear: 2001Language: EnglishPages: 320ISBN/UPC (if available): 969516093X DescriptionThis volume offers important readings in South Asian Literatures in English. Both the scholarly and creative contributions also indicate the main trends, and this book is the first of its kind in more than half a century.Original English Writing in South Asian Subcontinent was already on a firm footing in the early decades of this century with its rather urbane battery of writes and press, official encouragement, and an attentive audience in the colonial world. It was backed up by a tradition of local English writing, then older than a century. Following the partition of India, and independence from Britain of both India and Pakistan in 1947, the language and the literary writing in its have flourished, often in ways unforeseen and striking. Alongside substantial development in ot