MEDIATING INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH: German Responses

For some time, Indian literature in English has received critical attention in Germany. This collection includes responses by German-based academics to contemporary writing from India. The essays give evidence of far-reaching and insightful approaches to the problem of mediating Indian authors to a different, non-anglophone culture, to specific ways of interpreting contemporary classics by writers like Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh, to gender problems in Indian fiction and to themes like education and urban life. Altogether, the essays offer both an overview and a critical panorama of a growing body of writing that has a long heritage in Germany at understanding Indian culture.

Students of literature, anthropology, cultural history, and English and German studies will find this book useful and interesting.