Studies in Postcolonial Literature (Hardcover) | Released: 2007

Studies in Postcolonial Literature contains twenty-three papers and two interviews with two eminent writers on different genres—poetry, fiction, short fiction and drama—of Postcolonial Literature. It deals with literatures in English outside the Anglo-American tradition. The book focuses on how postcolonial literature assumes an identity of its own in spite of the writers drawn from different countries with distinct national identities. This is a very useful book for the students as well as the teachers who intend to do an extensive study of Postcolonial Literature.

Table of Contents:
1. Glocal Literatures in English Outside Anglo-American Tradition – Bijay Kumar Das 2. Epic of Sri Aurobindo’s Feminism: Reading Savitri – Haladhar Panda 3. Apart and Yet a Part: Hybridity in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel – Mina Surjit Singh 4. The Use of Indian English Idiom in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel and Shiv K. Kumar – Sabita Nayak 5. Imagery in the Poetry of Shiv K. Kumar – Krushna Chandra Maharana 6. Nineteenth-Century Australian Poetry as a Mirror of Australian History: A Reappraisal – Subhas Chandra Saha 7. Three Writers of Indian Diaspora: A Note – M.Q. Khan 8. The Concept of Identity in Indian Immigrant Women in America: A Literary Prospective – Rama Nair 9. “A Pain in the Posterior”: Scanning Minority—Mainstream Relationship in Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Ferozsha Baag – A.G. Khan 10. The Marriage of the Mind and the Cosmos in Patrick White’s Voss: An Indian Perspective – K. Chellappan 11. The Migrant Experience in Bharati Mukherjee’s Canadian Short Stories: An Indian Response – Viney Kirpal 12. Witi Ihimaera ‘Re-writing’ Katherine Mansfield – Rama Kundu 13. Nadine Gordimer’s Treatment of ‘Apartheid’ in her Novels – Ghorpade Pradny Vijay 14. Hayavadana: An Approach to the Text – C.R. Visweswara Rao 15. The Quest for Values: The Case of Nirad C. Chaudhuri – R.S. Pathak 16. Post-Independence Indian English Women Novelists: An Assessment – Sonali Das 17. Situating Post-1980 Indian English Fiction in the Present Context – Gopa Ranjan Mishra 18. Shades of Light-Hearted Swearwords and Anand’s Sense of Humour in Untouchable – Ramesh K. Srivastava 19. Cultural Amnesia in Amit Chaudhuri’s A New World – Bhagabat Nath 20. A Critique of Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring Rain – Rabinarayan Sasmal 21. A Critique of Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music – Bhagabat Nayak 22. The Contributions of Manoj Das and Ruskin Bond to Indian English Short Story – Bilkesh Parveen 23. The Question of Identity: A Note on V.S. Naipaul’s Travel—Writings on India and Trinidad – Bijay Kumar Das 24. Interview – Manoj Das in Conversation with Bijay Kumar Das 25. Meet the Author – Shiv K. Kumar in Conversation with Bijay Kumar Das Select Bibliography Contributors