Raja Rao: An Introduction

Letizia Alterno

doi:10.1017/CBO9788175968738

Contemporary Indian Writers in English (CIWE) is a series that presents critical commentaries on some of the best-known names in the genre. With the high visibility of Indian writing in English in academic, critical, pedagogic and reader circles, there is a perceivable demand for lucid yet rigorous introductions to several of its authors and genres. Raja Rao, along with RK Narayan and Mulk Raj Anand, defined Indian writing in English in the early twentieth century. His works exhibit a deep engagement with psychology, mysticism, spiritualism and philosophy. His narratives become cultural as well as individual chronicles, and very often draw implicitly or explicitly upon various aspects the freedom movement to Gandhi to myths of an Indian ethos. Letizia Alternos detailed, incisive and eminently readable introduction is a rigourous examination of the diverse, and complex, Raja Rao canon, including some of his lesser known short-fiction.

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An Introduction

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-x

Series Editor's Preface
pp xi-xii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-13

2 - Raja Rao and his Fictional Characters
pp 14-29

3 - The Missing Mother in Rao's Fiction
pp 30-62

4 - The Yearning for a Guru
pp 63-88

5 - Interminable Tales: The Short Stories
pp 89-106

6 - Meaningful Gurus: The Meaning of India and The Great Indian Way
pp 107-125

7 - Before and After the Guru: Two Early Works
pp 126-148

8 - Critical Unorthodoxy: Standpoints
pp 149-172

Topics for Discussion
pp 173-174

Bibliography and Webliography
pp 175-220

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