Meaning of The Text: Postmodern Issues in Indian English Fiction

The present book is a collection of articles that deal with multifarious Postmodern issues in Indian English Fiction. The papers include the various ideas of postmodern fiction writers who describe the various manifestations of postmodernism which emerged as a movement in art, architecture, literature and culture. Against the backdrop of the sense of modernism and loss of values ,postmodernism came into existence in diverse shades and variations taking into account dominant issues and challenges and illustrating them. Lack of faith, corruption and declining moral standard are some of the prominent themes in the postmodern Indian English Fiction. The anthology is an attempt to sensitize us to return to Postmodern issues in Indian English Fiction. The main aim of this volume is to enlarge the concept of Postmodernism as theory and practice either through the theoretical discourse or through the analysis of the text. I am sure the anthology, in the present format, steers Indian English Fiction to a new direction.

Dr. J.P.Singh, Assistant Prof. in the Department of English, Dr. Bhagwat Sahai Govt. College Gwalior, has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate classes for the last 26 years. He holds his Ph. D. degree from Jiwaji University Gwalior and is supervising Ph. D. Students in the same University. He has participated and presented papers in many national and international seminars. He has also published many papers on Indian English Literature and English Literature in various reputed journals and anthologies. He hast organized National Seminars on Native Modernity in Indian English Fiction and Postmodern Issues in Indian English Fiction. He has also edited three books entitled Nativism: Indian English Fiction, Native Modernity: Indian English Fiction and Text and Context: Postmodern Issues in Indian English Fiction. His specialized area is: Indian Writing in English.

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