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Name me a word : Indian writers reflect on writing /

A wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century and contemporary writing from India and the Indian diaspora, curated by a distinguished scholar and poet.

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Group Author: Alexander, Meena, 1951-2018 (Editor)
Published: Yale University Press,
Publisher Address: New Haven :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Multiple
Subjects:
Indic literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Indic literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Indic poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Indic poetry > 21st century > History and criticism.
Short stories, Indic > 20th century > History and criticism.
Short stories, Indic > 21st century > History and criticism.
Indic literature > 20th century > Translations into English.
Indic literature > 21st century > Translations into English.
Indic literature (English) > 20th century.
Indic literature (English) > 21st century.
India > In literature.
India > Literary collections.
Summary: A wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century and contemporary writing from India and the Indian diaspora, curated by a distinguished scholar and poet.
Item Description: Chronologically arranged anthology of twentieth-century and contemporary writing from India and the Indian diaspora.
Carrier Form: xxiii, 410 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780300222586 (paperback) :
0300222580 (paperback)
Index Number: PR9489
CLC: I351.065
Call Number: I351.065/N174
Contents: Letter ;
From Boyhood days ;
From Final poems.
"Sickbed 21" ;
"Recovery 4" /
To Arthur Symons ;
From a letter to Edmund Gosse ;
To Rabindranath Tagore (1912) ;
To Rabindranath Tagore (undated) /
"Two autobiographical sketches" /
From The autobiography of an unknown Indian.
From "My birthplace" ;
From "The English scene" ;
From "The Englishman in the flesh" /
"The professor" ;
"Name me a word" ;
"Poetry" ;
"The windy night" /
From My days : a memoir /
From "Pattumma's goat" /
"Entering the literary word" /
"Childhood memories" /
"The signs" ;
"Words and truths" ;
"Three words to make a poem" ;
"The revolving rock XVI" ;
"The revolving rock XXV" /
"My four-sided field" ;
From "The world of birds" ;
Acceptance speech for the 1968 Bahratiya Jnanpith Award /
"First letter to Uncle Sam" /
"We people" /
"To Waris Shah" ;
From The revenue stamp.
My sixteenth year ;
A shadow /
"Background, casually" ;
"Poet, lover, birdwatcher" /
"So many words, so many sounds" /
"Rejecting extinction" /
"Beyond the stars" /
From an autobiographical essay ;
"Grandfather" ;
"The abandoned British cemetery at Balasore" ;
"Hunger" /
"Elements of composition" ;
"Saturdays" ;
From "Is there an Indian way of thinking? an informal essay" /
"Returning to one's country" /
"Why write?" ;
"Upon my walls" ;
"Epitaph ;
From "Passage to America" /
"From an undated sheet" ;
From "Making love to a poem" /
From "Five decades of my writing" /
From My story.
"The bougainvillea" ;
From "The P.E.N. Poetry Prize" ;
"The old playhouse" ;
From "An introduction" /
"The decolonised muse (a personal statement)" /
"On being an Indian writer today" /
From author's introduction to Three plays /
"In poetry" ;
"Alphabets" ;
Combustion ;
"The year's first poem" ;
"Broken home" ;
From My life, my work /
"Being there : aspects of an Indian crisis" /
From "Squirrel" /
From "Sinning in Mysore" /
"Ghandi and poetry" ;
"Stammer" ;
"Burnt poems" ;
"About poetry, about life" /
"Engraving a bison on stone" ;
"Distance in statute miles" ;
"Where will the next one come from" ;
"Inscription" /
"Imaginary homelands" /
From "In search of evanescence" /
"Approaching the organized harem of the octopus" ;
"Mandakini Patil : a young prostitute, my intended collage" ;
"The day she was gone" /
From "Illiterate heart" ;
"Crossroad" /
"A note on writing When dreams travel" /
"My first fairy tale" /
From "The testimony of my grandfather's bookcase" /
"The poet with a forest fire inside" /
"The heroin sestina" ;
"Malayalam's ghazal" ;
"Spiritus mundi" /
From "Like sculpting smoke : Arundhati Roy on fame, writing and India" /
From "Interlude" /
"Photons, graphite, blood" ;
"Postcards" /
"To the Welsh critic who doesn't find me identifiably Indian" ;
First draft" /
"Night beast" ;
"Gigantic trees" ;
"Untitled poem -- 2" ;
"Pariah god" /

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