LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:1 January 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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FICTION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN INDIA:
CRITICAL ESSAYS

Dr. Shobha Ramaswamy


Focus of This Monograph

Indian writing in English for children and young adults has come of age, with a plethora of talented and dedicated writers contributing their creative efforts towards the growth of this new field.

From the re-telling of folk tales, mythological stories and classics such as the Panchatantra, Hitopadesha and the Jataka Tales, Indian writing for the young passed through a phase of western influence and has now emerged with a voice of its own.

Indian fiction in English for children and young adults is realistic and deals with the problems and interests of the day. It is neither sentimental nor overtly didactic, but has attained the golden mean. Humour and fantasy, too, have their place, as do mystery and adventure stories, tales of the supernatural, science fiction and historical and mythological creative fiction. Writers for the young have also shown their concern for ecology and the natural environment.

Prominent writers include Nilima Sinha, Ranjit Lal, Deepak Dalal, Ira Saxena, Paro Anand, Devika Rangachari, Anushka Ravishankar, Asha Nehemiah, Monideepa Sahu, Payal Dhar, Zai Whitaker, Harini Gopalswami Sreenivasan, Vandana Singh, Suniti Namjoshi,and Deepa Agarwal, among others. Writers such as Anita Desai, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Anita Nair, Mahaswetha Devi and Sashi Deshpande have also written for the young.

Apart from long-established publishers such as Children’s Book Trust and National Book Trust, highly innovative publishing houses such as Tulika, Tara, Katha, Pratham Books, Karadi Tales, Terrapin, Red Turtle, Young Zubaan , Duckbill and India Ink, to name a few, have emerged successfully.

More academic interest in this burgeoning field which has immense possibilities for fresh research is the need of the hour. This collection of research papers is a humble effort towards this worthy end.

Contents

1. Empowerment through the Interrogative:
Mahasweta Devi’s The Why-Why Girl 5

2. The Dilemma of the Dispossessed in Nilima Sinha’s
Red Blooms in the Forest 12

3. Ira Saxena’s
The Curse of Grass: An Ecofeminist Reading 21

4. The Hunter as the Hunted:
The Plight of the Modern Tiger in Deepak Dalal’s
Ranthambore Adventure 31

5. Accepting the Other: Overcoming Communal Barriers in
Paro Anand’s The Wild Child and Other Stories 38

6. Zai Whitaker’s
Andamans Boy: A Critique of Postcolonial ‘Development’ 45

7. Healing the Hurt- Resolution of Man-Animal Conflict in
Leela Gour Broome’s Flute in the Forest 54

8. Ecological Perspective in Vandana Singh’s
Young uncle Comes to Town 61

9. The Power of Sanctuary: Animals and Humans in Ranjit Lal’s
The Small Tigers of Shergharh 69

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Dr. Shobha Ramaswamy
Department of English
Kongunadu Arts & Science College
Coimbatore 641029
Tamilnadu, India
shobini_2005@yahoo.co.in

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