By Letizia Alterno,Rajeshwar Mittapalli

During the post-Independence interval Indian masculinity has passed through a huge transformation. yet this new mental and social phenomenon has now not been competently analysed or intellectually accounted for. Postcolonial Indian discourses are likely to skip masculinity even with its huge, immense significance. Literary feedback too has been no exception. educated reports of Indian masculinity in the box of literature were close to completely absent regardless of masculinity occupying the centre level in loads of fictional works. This e-book makes a decent try and fill the lacuna to an volume via learning, from a number of views, the depiction of Indian masculinity in Indian fiction in English of the postcolonial interval.

Most of the novels studied during this quantity faithfully mirror the hot social mores, daily ideology and well known psychology of the city Indian middleclass and boldly deal with the radical factor of masculinity and its altering contours.

The writers thought of the following contain G.V. Desani, Shashi Deshpande, Vikram Chandra, Amitav Ghosh, Kiran Nagarkar, Shobha Dé, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Mulk Raj Anand and a few of the subjects which were explored are: queer autofiction, marriage, sexual violence, gender-power hierarchy, discontents of masculinity, sexual politics, masculinity vs. femininity, inferiority and cultural determinism. it really is was hoping that this e-book will considerably give a contribution to the dialogue in India of masculinity as a tutorial topic and within the technique turn out important to literary students in addition to social scientists.

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