Author Description

This critical companion is the first compendium of wide-ranging scholarship on Tabish Khair, who has emerged as a powerful voice in contemporary Indian English Literature. The essays in this collection examine Khair's novels and poetical collections in ways that yield new insights which are central to the understanding of Khair as a writer, and why he categorically refuses to align his works with any literary genre. This critical collection not only throws new light on the thematic, social and cultural issues of Khair s writings, but also offers in-depth readings of his multi-layered texts which enable the readers to rethink the position of the author from an international and broader intellectual context.