About the Book: Aspects of Contemporary World Literature
Aspects of Contemporary World Literature is an unfailingly resourceful and
informative book and its penetrating contemporary analyses bring into view
immensely fruitful and illuminating new perspectives on contemporary world
literature. It comprises five parts, and each part is closely-knit with the
other parts with its overt emphasis on the strand of contemporaneity. Rooted as
it is in concept of world literature, Part A studies interestingly major
contemporary British literary artists like Pinter, Farrell and others. Part B
examines not surprisingly but unabashedly the modern American artistic
sensibilities like Rita Dove, Maya Angelou, Jerzy Kosinski, Thomas King and Toni
Morrison. Part C