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Rajeev S. Patke

Publications on Indian Poetry in English

1986

1 Journal article - local non-refereed: “Wanted: A good Indian Writer in English,” Review of Family Quarrels: towards a criticism of Indian writing in English, by Feroza F. Jussawalla, New Quest 59 (Sep.-Oct. 1986): 313-20.

1991

2a Journal article - non-refereed: “Canons and Canon-making in Indian Poetry in English,” Kavya Bharati: a Review of Indian Poetry 3 (1991): 13-37.

2b Chapter in book: “Canons and Canon-making in Indian Poetry in English,” in From Commonwealth to Post-Colonial: Critical Essays, ed. Anna Rutherford. Mundelstrup: Dangaroo Press, 1991, 344-64.

3 Brief entry in book: “Gieve Patel,” in Contemporary Poets, ed. Tracy Chevalier. London: St James Press, 1991, 744-45.

1993

4 Review article: “Once More Unto the Canon, or Rebottling Indian Poetry in English,” Review of Contemporary Indian Poetry, The Oxford Indian Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets, Modern Indian Poetry in English, Indian Poetry in English, Indian English Poetry since 1950: An Anthology, ed. Kaiser Haq, A. K. Mehrotra, K. Ayyappa Paniker, Makarand Paranjpe, Vilas Sarang respectively, Kavya Bharati: a Review of Indian Poetry 5 (1993): 13-28.

1995

5 Chapter in book: “Ithacan Voyages: The Poetry of R. Parthasarthy and A.K. Ramanujan,” in New Perspectives in Indian Literature in English: Essays in Honour of M. K. Naik, eds. C. R. Yaravintelimath, G. S. Balarama Gupta, C. V. Venugopal and Amritjit Singh. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1995, 112-120.

6 Review: “Resistance Theory: The Futures of Literary Decolonization,” review of In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism, Culture and Imperialism, by Aijaz Ahmad, G.N. Devy, Edward W. Said respectively, Kavya Bharati: a Review of Indian Poetry 7 (1995): 37-60.

7 Chapter in book: “English in the University: The View from Asia,” in Institutions in Cultures: Theory and Practice, eds. Robert A. Lumsden & Rajeev S Patke. Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi S.V., 1996, 262-86.

8 Electronic publication in peer-reviewed journal: “Knowledge and Legitimation: Response to Ambroise Kom,” Mots Pluriels (University of Western Australia, Perth) 14 (June 2000).

http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1400rsp.html

2000

9 Article in international peer-reviewed journal: “Translation as Metaphor: The Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali,” Metamorphoses (The journal of the five college seminar on literary translation) 8: 2 (Fall 2000): 266-78.

2001

10 Chapter in book: “Indian Poetry in English,” in Post-Colonial Literatures in English (Asia-Pacific Version): Study Guide. Singapore: Open University/Singapore Institute of Management, 2001, 39-60.

11 Article in Journal: “The Ambivalence of Poetic Self-exile: The Case of A.K. Ramanujan,” Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 5: 2 (Winter 2001).

http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v5i2/rspatk.htm

12 Chapter in Book: “Adorno: Asian Extrapolations.” In Practice: Adorno, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, eds. Holger Briel and Andreas Kramer. Bern: Peter Lang, 193-202.

13 Chapter in Book: “‘Is there any intellectual in this room?’: An Asian Problem,” in Reflections on Alternative Discourses from Southeast Asia, ed. Farid Alatas. Centre for Advanced Studies (National University of Singapore) and Pagesetters Service Pte. Ltd, 2001, 119-28.

14 Book Review: Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu. London: Bloomsbury, 2001, The Arts Magazine (The Esplanade, Singapore) (Sept./Oct. 2001): 87.

15 Book Review: Rabindranath Tagore, Final Poems. Selected and Translated by Wendy Barker and Saranindranath Tagore. New York: George Braziller, 2001. The Straits Times (24 November 2001). Life-Books section, L20.

16 Chapter in Book: “Irretrievable Fragments: Postcolonial Projects in Indian Historiography,” in Colonies – Missions – Cultures - in the English-Speaking World: General and Comparative Studies, ed. Gerhard Stilz, 348-60. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2001.

2002

17 “Benjamin in Bombay? An Extrapolation”, Postmodern Culture 13:2 (May 2002).

Shroter version: in Theorising the Southeast Asian City as text: Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretative Experiences, eds. Robbie B.H. Goh and Brenda S.A. Yeoh. Singapore: World Scientific/Singapore University Press (forthcoming: 2002)

18 “Benjamin’s Arcades Project and the Postcolonial City”, Diacritics 30: 4 (Winter 2000, published/forthcoming: July 2002)

19 “Adorno in the Postcolonial”, New Formations 47 (forthcoming: Aug/ Sep. 2002).

20 “Back to the Future: The Post- in the -Colonial”, Introduction to The European Legacy, Special issue on “Europe in Postcolonial Narratives”, 17: 2 (2002/2003).

21 “Poetry since Independence,” in The Illustrated Companion to Indian Literature in English, ed. A. K. Mehrotra. New Delhi: Permanent Black; New York: Columbia Univ. Press, London: C. Hurst & Co. (forthcoming: Nov. 2002).

22 Interview with David Davidar. The Arts Magazine (The Esplanade) (forthcoming: July-Aug. 2002).

2003

23 “Agha Shahid Ali”. In World Writers in English. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Scribner’s (2003), vol. 1, 41-58.

24 “A.K. Ramanujan”. In World Writers in English. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Scribner’s, (October 2003), vol. 2, 553-572.

Poetry Since Independence

Chronology

LITERARY EVENTS LITERARY WORKS

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1950 Illustrated Weekly begins publishing poetry

1952 Nissim Ezekiel, A Time to Change

1953 Sahitya Akademi founded 1953 Ezekiel, Sixty Poems

1955 Quest founded

1957 Dom Moraes, A Beginning

1958 Moraes awarded Hawthornden Prize

Indian Literature founded

1959 Writers Workshop begins publication 1959 Ezekiel, The Third

Opinion founded

Poetry (Chicago), Indian poetry issue (January) 1960 Ezekiel, The Unfinished Man

1960 Sahitya Akademi begins awards in Indian P. Lal, The Parrot's Death & Other Poems

Literature in English Moraes, Poems

1961 Imprint founded

1962 Penguin Modern Poetry 2 (Moraes, Kingsley Amis, Peter Porter)

Adil Jussawala, Land's End

1964 Das receives Poetry Award, Asian PEN, Manila

1965 Kamala Das, Summer in Calcutta

Ezekiel, The Exact Name

Moraes, John Nobody

1966 Poetry India (6 issues) 1966 A. K. Mehrotra, bharatmata: a prayer

Young Commonwealth Poets, ed. P. L. Brent Moraes, Poems 1955-1965

Gieve Patel, Poems

A. K. Ramanujan, The Striders

1967 Das, The Descendants

Mehrotra, Concrete Poetry

Mehrotra, Woodcuts on Paper

Pritish Nandy, Of Gods and Olives

R. Parthasarthy, The First Step, Poems 1955-56

1968 Gauri Deshpande, Between Births

K. D. Katrak, A Journal of the Way

Moraes, Bedlam and Others

Nandy, I Hand You in Turn My Nebbuk Wreath

Nandy, On Either Side of Arrogance

1969 Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology and a Credo, ed. P. Lal

1970 Keki Daruwalla, Under Orion

Shiv K. Kumar, Articulate Silences

1971 Mehrotra at Iowa writers program 1971 Daruwalla, Apparition in April

Jayanta Mahapatra, Close the Sky, Ten by Ten

Mehrotra, Pomes/Poemes/Poems

Ramanujan, Relations

1972 Contemporary Indian Poetry in English: An Assessment and Selection, ed. Saleem Peeradina

1973 Arnold Heinemann Indian poetry series starts 1973 Das, The Old Playhouse and Other Poems

1974 Opinion Literary Quarterly (4 issues) 1974 An Anthology of Indo-English Poetry, ed. Gauri Deshpande

Kumar, Cobwebs in the Sun

1975-77 Emergency Rule in India

1975 Chitre at Iowa writers programm 1975 Kumar, Subterfuges

1976 Clearing House begins publishing 1976 Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets, ed. R. Parthasarthy

OUP New Poetry in India series begins Jussawalla, Missing Person

Ramanujan awarded the Padma Shri Ezekiel, Hymns in Darkness

Mahapatra at Iowa writers program Arun Kolhatkar, Jejuri

Kumar, Subterfuges

Mahapatra, A Father's Hours

Mahapatra, A Rain of Rites

Mehrotra, Nine Enclosures

Patel, How Do You Withstand, Body

Ramanujan, Selected Poems

1977 Kolatkar wins Commonwealth Poetry Prize 1977 Lal, Collected Poems

Nandy awarded the Padma Shri Parthasarthy, Rough Passage

1978 Parthasarthy at Iowa writers program

1979 Das & Nandy, Tonight, The Savage Rite

Eunice de Souza, Fix

Katrak, Underworld

Kumar, Woodpeckers

Mahapatra, Waiting

Nandy, Selected Poems

1980 Two Decades of Indian Poetry 1960-1980, ed. Keki N. Daruwalla

Dilip Chitre, Travelling a Cage

Daruwalla, Winter Poems

Mahapatra, The False Start

Mahapatra, Relationship

Saleem Peeradina, First Offence

1981 Sahitya Akademi awards to Das and Mahapatra 1981 Vikram Seth, Mappings

Manohar Shetty, A Guarded Space

1982 Daruwalla, The Keeper of the Dead

Ezekiel, Latter-Day Psalms

Mehrotra, Distance in Statute Miles

1983 Ezekiel receives the Sahitya Akademi Award 1983 Mahapatra, Life Signs

Moraes, Absences

1984 Kumar receives the Charles Holmer Prize 1984 Das, Collected Poems vol. I

Daruwalla receives the Sahitya Akademi Award Katrak, Purgatory

Mehrotra, Middle Earth

Kumar, The Broken Columns

1985 Seth, The Humble Administrator's Garden

1986 Seth wins Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) 1986 Das, A Selection, ed. S.C. Harrex & V. O'Sullivan

Seth, The Golden Gate

1987 Mahapatra, Selected Poems

1988 Sujata Bhatt wins Commonwealth Poetry 1988 de Souza, Women in Dutch Painting

Prize (Asia) Mahapatra, Burden of Waves and Fruit

Kumar and Seth receive Sahitya Akademi Awards Shetty, Borrowed Time

Ezekiel receives the Padma Shri

1989 Imtiaz Dharker, Purdah

Ezekiel, Collected Poems 1952-1988

Mahapatra, The Temple

1990 Contemporary Indian Poetry, ed. Kaiser Haq

de Souza, Ways of Belonging

Charmayne D'Souza, A Spelling Guide to Woman

Seth, All You Who Sleep Tonight

1991 Das, The Best of Kamala Das

Patel, Mirrored, Mirroring

Seth, Beastly Tales from Here and There

1992 The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets, ed. A. K. Mehrotra

Ezekiel, Selected Prose

1993 Indian Poetry in English, ed. M. Paranjape

An Anthology of New Indian English Poetry, ed. M. Paranjape

In Their Own Voice: The Penguin Book of Contemporary Indian Women Poets, ed. Arlene R.K. Zide

1994 Dharker, Postcards from God

Shetty, Domestic Creatures

1995 Daruwalla, A Summer of Tigers

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