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Studies in Commomwealth Literature . New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2003.

Commonwealth literature today stands for literature(s) in English written in the commonwealth countries outside the Anglo - American tradition. What is common between the diverse members of the commonwealth in spite of their different calendars of Independence and ethnological, cultural, political as also topographical set-ups is that all these countries shared the common colonial experience. So, from India to Nigeria , Canada to Kenya , Australia to Pakistan we can discern the varying patterns of a common human experience and emergence of cultural nationalism leading to an emphasis on their distinctiveness in literary heritage and assertion of cultural identity. Commonwealth literature thus presents a rich variety of aesthetic and cultural experience.

The essays collected in this volume spanning different countries and periods try to offer a taste of this interesting variety. The range covered here stretches from West African drama to South African fiction, Australian and Caribbean literature to that of Indian diaspora and South Asian poetry of the SAARC countries. …