N. Singh

Vernacular Modernism and the Colonial Tongue: Narrative Strategies, Language, and Decoloniality in O.V. Vijayan and R.K. Narayan

This article does a comparative study of the narrative strategies of O.V.Vijayan (1930-2005) and R.K.Narayan (1906-2001), two towering figures in Indian Literature who worked in fundamentally different linguistic registers and with divergent aesthetic and political commitments. Vijayan, writing primarily in Malayalam,...