Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-162) and indexes.

Trends in post-colonial poetry -- Indian English poetry: retrospect and prospect -- Akademi award winning Indian English poetry as post-colonial text -- The crisis of identity in the poetry of Derek Walcott -- The poetry of Nissim Ezekiel and the question of the reader response -- Margaret Atwood's Surfacing as an eco-feminist novel -- The language of The God of Small Things: post-colonial study -- Women in introspection: a study of Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain -- Shashi Despande's That Long Silence and the question of the reader response -- Shobha De's Sisters : an appraisal -- The author and the text : a study of Shobha De's Snapshots -- The art of storytelling : a study of Love and Longing in Bombay -- Short story as autobiography : a study of Ruskin Bond's Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra -- A critique of Nissim Ezekiel's Don't Call it Suicide -- Orissan contribution to post-colonial Indian English literature -- Post- colonial English studies : the Indian context -- Nissim Ezekiel's humanistic poetry : an overview -- How difficult is Difficult Daughters! Post-Independence Indian English fiction.