india author m 1- a-nan - University of Wollongong

Forster: A Centenary Volume New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1981; Atlanbtic Highlands:
Humanities, 1981, 177pp. [See Rao entry under KAKATIYA]
REDDY, K.V. "Mulk Raj Anand's Lament on the Death of a Master of Arts" Journal of
Indian Writing in English 5.2 (1977):28-36.
Questions rejection of this work by Naik and others. As character study and satire it
arouses compassion and outrage. Focuses on the stress of an orphan's upbringing in the
development of Nur's life. He fails to succeed because he lacks conventionally sedirable ethnic
origin, parental occupation and connections to influential persons.
RIEMENSCHNEIDER, D. "Mulk Raj Anand's Confession of a Lover" WLWE 16.1: 105-9;
and Indian Author 2.1 (1977):73-6.
Probes the interrelatedness of autobiographical details and fictitious renderings of
authorial search for truth. Analyses the thematic cohesion of Indian writing in English centred
upon a quest for identity. Grapples with the concept of alienation from traditional Hindu
society and values as the fundamental motivation for Indian intellectual's pursuit of the meaning
of self.
RIEMENSCHNEIDER, D. "Saros Cowasjee's So Many Freedoms: A Study of the Major
Fiction of Mulk Raj Anand" Journal of the School of Languages 7.1&2 (1978-9):150-5.
Offers praise for Cowasjee's erudite and expansive treatment of Anand's oeuvre but
admonishes him for not separating textual criticism from authorial intent. Cowasjee resources a
range of critical approaches in an eclectic mix of criticism.
RIEMENSCHNEIDER, DIETER. "Mulk Raj Anand: Coolie; The Old Woman and the Cow;
Untouchable" Kindlers Neues Literatur-Lexicon Bd. 1 Munchen (1988):407-09, 410-11.
RIEMENSCHNEIDER, DIETER. "The Function of Labour in Mulk Raj Anand's Novels"
JSL 4.1 (1976):1-20.
Assesses the problem of human labour as a probe into the ideological messages
transmitted through his fiction. Employs the Marxist theory of labour as the principle guideline
of his investigation.
ROBERTSON, R.T. "Untouchable as an Archetypal Novel" World Literature Written in
English (K.S. NARAYANA RAO ed.) Vol. 14 No. 2 November 1975:339-346. The
University of Texas,Arlington.
Perceives Untouchable(1935) deserves canonical status within the new literatures area
as the archetype of the isolation of the individual expressed as the concept of "untouchability".
Contextualises this novel as the archetypal presentation of the classic colonial situation and its
resolution in a reharmonising of the rebellious individual into his own culture. Builds a
structuralist perspective into Untouchable(1935) and applies it to the entire new literatures
fictional field. Provides an extremely perceptive and far-ranging analysis that serves to open up
the complexity of colonialism and its expression in fiction.
See also Kakatiya Journal of English Studies Vol. 11 No. 1 Spring 1977: 5-15.
SETHI, VIJAY MOHAN. Mulk Raj Anand: the Short Story Writer, New Delhi: Ashish
Publishing House, 1990, 114pp.