About the Book

For some time, Indian literature in English has received critical attention in Germany. This collection includes responses by German-based academics to contemporary writing from India. The essays give evidence of far-reaching and insightful approaches to the problem of mediating Indian authors to a different, non-anglophone culture, to specific ways of interpreting contemporary classics by writers like Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh, to gender problems in Indian fiction and to themes like education and urban life. Altogether, the essays offer both an overview and a critical panorama of a growing body of writing that has a long heritage in Germany at understanding Indian culture.

Students of literature, anthropology, cultural history, and English and German studies will find this book useful and interesting.

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About the Author / Editor

Bernd-Peter Lange, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Magdeburg University, has taught british studies and european studies at free university berlin, technical university braunschweig, oldenburg university and, as visiting professor, at mumbai university, sofia and wroclav universities.

Mala Pandurang is Head, Department of English, Dr. BMN College, Mumbai.She has taught at the post graduate departments of the SNDT women’s university and the university of mumbai.She is also post-doctoral fellow of the alexander von humboldt foundation, germany.

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