World Literatures in English: India and South Asia - Selected Works

Contents: Literary History & Criticism | Collections | Prose, Poetry & Drama: Representative Authors

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Literary History & Criticism

Alphonso-Karkala, John B. Indo-English Literature in the Nineteenth Century. Mysore: Literary Half-yearly, U of Mysore, 1970.
PR 9489.5 .A4

Alphonso-Karkala, John and Leena Karkala. Bibliography of Indo-English Literature: A Checklist of Works by Indian Authors in English, 1800-1966. Bombay: Nirmala Sadanand, 1974.
PR 9494.3 .B5

Bernhard, Betty and Kailash Pandya. Women Theater Activists of India : An Educational Video. [videorecording] Claremont, CA : Pomona College Theatre Dept., 1999.
Video Collection PN 2881.5 .W65 1999

Burton, Antoinette. Dwelling in the archive : women writing house, home, and history in late colonial India. New York : Oxford U P, 2003.
PR9492.6.W6 B87 2003

Casper, Leonard. New Writing from the Philippines; a Critique and Anthology. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse U, 1966.
PR 9550 .C38

Casper, Leonard. The Wounded Diamond; Studies in Modern Philippine Literature. Manila : Bookmark, 1964.
PL 5538 .C3

Das, G. K. E. M. Forster's India. Totowa, NJ : Rowman and Littlefield, 1977.
PR 6011 .O58 Z652

Gorra, Michael. After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
PR 888 .I6 G67 1997

Ghosh, Bishnupriya. When borne across : literary cosmopolitics in the contemporary Indian novel. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers U P, 2004.
PR9492.5 .G47 2004

Gupta, Brijen K. India in English Fiction, 1800-1970; an Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ : Scarecrow, 1973.
PR 830 .I6 G8

Hankin, Nigel B. Hanklyn-janklin, or, A Stranger's Rumble-tumble Guide to Some Words, Customs and Quiddities Indian and Indo-British. 2nd rev. ed. New Delhi: Banyan Books, 1994.
PE 1582 .H56 H26 1994

Hogan, Patrick Colm. Colonialism and Cultural Identity : Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean. Albany : State U of New York P, 2000.
PR 9080 .H64 2000

González, M. V. M.Mindoro and Beyond : Twenty-one Stories. Quezon City, Philippines : U of the Philippines P, 1979.
PR 9550.9 .G65 M5 1979

Grewal, Inderpal. Home and Harem : Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel. Durham, NC : Duke U P, 1996.
PR 756 .T72 G74 1996

Jha, Ram¯a. Gandhian Thought and Indo-Anglian Novelists. Delhi: Chanakya, 1983.
PR 9492.5 .J48 1983

Kafka, Phillipa. On the outside looking in(dian) : Indian women writers at home and abroad. New York : P. Lang, 2003.
PR9488 .K34 2003

King, Bruce Alvin. Modern Indian Poetry in English. Delhi: Oxford U P, 1987.
PR 9490.5 .K5 1987

Kirpal, Viney. The Third World Novel of Expatriation: A Study of Emigre Fiction by Indian, West African, and Caribbean Writers. New Dehli: Sterling, 1989.
PR9080 .K55 1989

McDowell, Robert E. and Judith H. McDowell, eds. Asian/Pacific Literatures in English : Bibliographies. Washington : Three Continents, 1978.
PR 9080 .A84

Manuud, Antonio G., ed. Brown Heritage: Essays on Philippine Cultural Tradition and Literature. Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila U P, 1967.
PL 5533 .B7

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, ed. A history of Indian literature in English. New York : Columbia U P, 2003.
PR9489.6 .H57 2003

Miller, Barbara Stoler, ed. Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective : A Guide for Teaching. Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe, 1994.
PJ 409 .M38 1994

Mukherjee, Arun. Towards an Aesthetic of Opposition : Essays on Literature, Criticism & Cultural Imperialism. Stratford, Ont., Canada : Williams-Wallace, 1988.
PR 9188.2 .S68 M86 1988

Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Twice Born Fiction; Themes and Techniques of the Indian Novel in English. New Delhi: Heinemann Educational Books, 1971.
PR 9492.2 .M8

Naik, M. K., ed. Aspects of Indian Writing in English: Essays in Honour of Professor K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar. Delhi: Macmillan, 1979.
PR 9480 .A86

Naik, M. K. A History of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1982.
PR 9484.3 .N35 1982

Naik, M. K. and S. Mokashi-Punekar, eds. Perspectives on Indian Drama in English. Madras: Oxford U P, 1977.
PR 9491.2 .P47

Naik, M. K. Raja Rao. New York: Twayne, 1972.
PR 6035. A385 Z8

Naqvi, Rafiq Ahmad. Indian Response to Literature in English (British, American, and Indo-Anglian): An Annotated Bibliography. Gurgaon: Indian Documentation Service, 1974.
PR 83 .N3

Narasimhaiah, C. D. The Swan and the Eagle: Essays on Indian English Literature. 2nd ed. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1987, c1968.
PR 9484.6 .N38 1987

Nasta, Susheila, ed. Motherlands: Black Women's Writing from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers UP, 1992.
PR 9340.5 .M67 1992

Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney. Using the Master's Tools : Resistance and the Literature of the African and South-Asian Diasporas. New York : St. Martin's, 2000.
PR 120 .M55 N44 2000

Literary cultures in history : reconstructions from South Asia. Ed. Sheldon Pollock. Berkeley : U of California P, 2003.
PK 2903 .L47 2003

Roy, Parama. Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Berkeley: Uof California P, 1998.
PR 9485.2 .R69 1998
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Salman Rushdie. [videorecording] Prod. Katarina Malmer. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1996.
Video Collection PR 9499.3 .R8 Z86 1996
        "In this interview with Britt-Marie Mattsson, Salman Rushdie provides a rare personal insight into his work and his life in hiding since Iran announced a death sentence on him after his novel Satanic verses was published."

San Juan, E., Jr. The Philippine Temptation : Dialectics of Philippines--U.S. Literary Relations. Philadelphia : Temple U P, 1996.
PL 5531 .S25 1996

Sharma, K. K., ed. Indo-English Literature: A Collection of Critical Essays. 1st ed. Ghaziabad: Vimal Prakashan, 1977.
PR 9484.6 .I56

Sharma, K. K., ed. Perspectives on Raja Rao. 1st ed. Ghaziabad: Vimal Prakashan, 1980.
PR 9499.3 .R3 Z83

Singh, Rashna B. The Imperishable Empire: A Study of British Fiction on India. Washington: Three Continents, 1988.
PR 830 .I6 S5 1988

Srinivasa Iyengar, K. R. Indian Writing in English. 2d ed., rev. and enl. New York: Asia, 1973.
PR 9484.3 .S7 1973

Suleri, Sara. The Rhetoric of English India. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.
PR 9484.3 .S85 1992

Tharu, Susie and K. Lalita. Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1991.
PK 2978 .E5 W57 1990 v.1-2

Walsh, William. Indian Literature in English. London: Longman, 1990.
PR 9484.4 .W35 1990

Weatherby, W. J. Salman Rushdie : Sentenced to Death. New York : Carroll & Graf, 1990.
PR 9499.3 .R8 Z95 1990