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T1 Midnight's Children Come of Age. Some Indian Novels of the Past Decade
A1 MacDermott, Doireann
AB The ending of the British Raj and the emergence of an IndependentIndia in 1947 raised some debate as to the future of the English languageand the future of Indian literature writtten in English competing,as it would be, with so many other rich indigenous languages. Wouldthe distinguished Indian writers writing in the 1950s and 60s be the lastto do so in English? This article discusses the novels of six Indian writersborn in the post-colonial decade of the 1950s whose first work appearsin the 1980s: Rohinton Mistry, Boman Desai, I. Allan Sealy, ShashiTaroor, Amitav Ghosh and Vikram Seth, all of whom have contributedto the maintenance of the Indian novel in English. There are, however,aspects of Indian life which do seem better reflected in other Indianlanguages which call for more translation in order to reach a wider,non-Indian readership.
SN e-2530-8335
YR 1994
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