Editorial

The Winter Issue of the Journal of Culture, Literature and Media Studies focuses on Contemporary American, British and Indian Fiction. It is a fact that British and American novelists dominate the literary scene in the first half of the 20th century but the second half of the 20th century belongs to the Indian English writers of fiction. Howard Brenton, one of our contemporary British novelists deals with the theme of violence in his novels while Julian Barnes writes historical meta-fiction. They are doing good jobs. The works of Indian English writers are challenging as well as fascinating. The areas they explore have been subjected to critical enquiry.