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

SYAL, PUSHPINDER.
PRASAD, MADHUSUDAN.
MOHANTY, NIRANJAN.
DAVID, P.C.
INAMDAR, F.A.
SWAIN, RABINDRA K.
DUTTA, UJJAL.
Interview with Norman Simms.
PRASAD, MADHUSUDAN. "'Caught in the Currents of Time': A Study in the Poetry of
Jayanta Mahapatra" in DWIVEDI, A.N ed. Studies in Contemporary Indo-English Verse
Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 1984:89-122.
PRASAD, MADHUSUDAN. '"Echoes of a Bruised Presence": Images of Women in the
Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra" WLWE 28.2 (Autumn 1988):367-78.
PRASAD, S.M. "Quest for Roots in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra" Journal of Indian
Writing in English 17.1 (1989): 22-32.
RAMAKRISHNAN, E.V. "Landscape as Destiny: Jayanta Mahapatra's Poetry" in DAS,
BIJAY KUMAR ed. Contemporary Indo-English Poetry Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot,
1986: 102-10.
RAMAMURTI, K.S. & SUNDARI, G. "Song of the Past: An Interpretation of the Poetry of
Jayanta Mahapatra" Littcrit 10.1 (1984):15-27.
RAO, A.V. KRISHNA. "The Recent Poetry of Jayanta Mahpatra: An Assessment"
ACLALS Bulletin 7th Series No. 2 (1986):67-76.
STACHNIEWSKI, JOHN. "Life Signs in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra" The Indian
Literary Review 4.2 (1986):79-84.
SWAIN, RABINDRA K. "Life Signs: An Essay-Review" The Literary Endeavour 6.1-4
(1986):133-42. (check date)
TARINAYYA, M. "Jayanta Mahapatra's A Letter to Kazuko Shiraishi in Tokyo: An
Analysis" The Literary Criterion 20.3 (1985): 60-69.
Criticism should move toward the writer’s “conscience” - “the honest desire to be true
to one’s experience of the complexities and challenges of life”. Mahapatra’s idea of the poem
as “testament” has it “breaking forth an experience into a relationship with the reader”. The
reader has difficulty overcoming the initial impression of commonness and can find the
language of subjective rendering hard too. The private colloquial voice of a letter is
transformed by “deautomatizing” image links (rain-hunger) that move us from literal and social
detail to symbolic or metaphysical levels of meaning. Spiralling moralising commentary starting
in close reading, seeing the poem as reflecting on civilisation and religion in modern India
(objectified through the eyes of the Tokyo addressee) and the poet’s isolation and
responsibility arising from the death by tetanus of Mahapatra’s servant girl.
Mahapatra, Laxmi Narayan.