POSTINDEPENDENCE INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE - TOWARDS A NEW LITERARY-HISTORY

Indian English literature is a contest over the nature, identity and u ltimately distiny of modern India. Of late, the realistic, modernistic , pessimistic mode of the first three decades of post-independence wri ting is giving way to a non-representational, experimental, self-consc ious and optimistic literature. But the real challenge of the writers of today face is the enforced homogenisation and standardisation of cu lture due to globalisation and the new, easy and superficial internati onalism which tempts Indian English writers to market themselves abroa d.