Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing Hasan Anjum
Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing Hasan Anjum This anthology brings together one hundred contemporary Indian poets and fiction writers working in English as well as translating from other…
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Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing Hasan Anjum
This anthology brings together one hundred contemporary Indian poets and fiction writers working in English as well as translating from other Indian languages. The editors present a historical background to the various Englishes apparent in this collection, while also identifying the shared traditions and contexts that hold together their uniquely diverse selection. Located anywhere from Michigan to Mumbai, the sources of their creativity range from the ancient epics to twentieth-century world literature, with themes suggesting a modernist individuality and sense of displacement as well as an ironic, postmodern embracing of multiple disjunctions.
In aiming at coherence rather than unity, Hasan and Chattarji reveal that the idea of Indianness is as much a means of exploring difference as finding common