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Following the Second World War, yoga has asserted its presence in America and impacted the American culture, arts, and literature. This book offers extensive explications of Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet, J.D. Salinger's ""Teddy,"" John Updike's S.: A Novel, and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five in the light of the four different yoga philosophies interwoven into their respective narrative structures. The comparative analyses of these four contemporary American fictions unveil the deeper mystical motifs implicit in their plots, stories, themes, and characters' behavioural patterns. The exhaustive interpretations of texts in the five successive chapters put forth an exposition of how the ancient Indic philosophy and contemporary American fiction interact to explicate and enrich each other. The book adds a unique, unconventional dimension to the comparative and interdisciplinary investigation into contemporary American fiction and thereby opens up new vistas of an off-beat interface between the Eastern philosophy and Western literature.

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Sukhbir Singh was Professor and Dean of the School of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy, and Comparative Religions at Nalanda International University, Rajgir, India, where he lectured on the Sankhya philosophy, Vedanta, Shaivism, Tantrism, Kundalini yoga, Patanjali yoga, Hatha yoga, and the history and philosophy of yoga. He taught American literature at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. Singh was a Senior Fulbright Fellow in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA. He has published books on a wide variety of interdisciplinary subjects and his scholarly articles have appeared in Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations (New edition), Cambridge Companion on Saul Bellow, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Philosophy and Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Comparative Critical Studies, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, The Comparatist, Weber Studies, and several other prestigious international journals.

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