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Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and V.S. Naipaul are just three South Asian writers to receive critical acclaim in recent years. This encyclopedia covers topics related to literature written in English by authors who were either born in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, or who identify themselves with that region. The 138 alphabetically arranged entries cover novelists (53 of them), novels (32), poets, dramatists, cinematic adaptations, short story writers, themes, genres, literary movements, and critical terms. (The blurb's “several hundred” entries is grossly inaccurate!)
The entries cover some two or three pages each and give good coverage of their subjects....
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