Away
The Indian Writer as an Expatriate| By: | Amitava Kumar |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415968973 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781135777470 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2004 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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For more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call of Indian-born writers is startling: Rushdie, Mukerjee, Mehta, Ghosh, Naipaul, Kureishi, Narayan, Mistry, among many others. Amitava Kumar, himself an Indian writer now 'away' in America, is editing a broad anthology of work by Indian writers whose lives and literary identities have been formed by their experiences in some form of exile. Spanning writing from the 1920s to the present, Away contains work by the writers mentioned above, alongside earlier pieces by Gandhi, Nehru, and Tagore, and a wide range of writers over the last half-century.