Abstract
The year 2009 was a productive one for all the 'big guns' in subcontinental English writing, with numerous articles on Amitav Ghosh, Romesh Gunesekera, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Shyam Selvadurai, and Vikram Seth. But it was also a significant one for some of the oft-forgotten stalwarts, such as Anita Desai, E.M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling, Sarojini Naidu, R.K. Narayan, Paul Scott, and Kamala Markandaya. In listing these names, I am not making nationality-based distinctions, but rather uniting them under their predominant literary locale. In doing so, I wish to emphasize the importance of geopolitical 'place' that inevitably shapes the imaginative in writers, especially at a time when the amorphous category of 'world literature' (read literature available in English, in the original as well as in translation) threatens to overtake affiliations of being and belonging.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Year's Work in English Studies. Vol. 90 |
| Editors | William Baker, Kenneth Womack |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 1004-1013 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199642892 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |