Culture and Identity

The most striking feature of the book (Culture and Identity, Re-reading Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand) is its fresh take on Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand. Beyond the conventional, canonical critical approaches that usually estimate these authors from social, philosophical perspectives, the book takes recourse to the cultural issues of nation, language `difference, identity politics, class struggle, gender formations, post-colonialism, and postmodernism. This critical anthology tries to trace the hyphenated status - the (r)evolutionary unease - of these writers as revealed in their works. The essays unearth, in the writings of maestros, the cultural tension and negotiations that struggle for recognition of identity.