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Postcolonial Literature in the New Millennium: Philosophy, Politics, and Aesthetics features 16 essays written by scholars who explore the multivalent offshoot of postcolonial literature in the first quarter of the 21st century. The texts and contexts taken up in different essays engage with the contemporary realities of countries and regions that were once a part of the Commonwealth and have now evolved as independent national, political, and cultural entities while resisting colonialism and reconstructing new identities at the same time. If deliberations on nation, home, displacement, and migration represent the consciousness of communities inflicted with a sense of loss and trauma, the advent of health humanities, graphic novels, cinema, and digital humanities intersect with the advancement on the wave of modernity. Since the progress of such societies is concomitant with the rise of discourses from the margin, there are essays on the subtle nuances of Dalit, gender, and tribal identities. Environmental crises along with pandemics, an inevitable outcome of the technology-driven progress, and their impact on indigenous communities have been the core concern of some essayists, while a few have speculated about eco-futurism and post-humanism. This anthology of critical writings with its kaleidoscopic range encompassing recent scholarships will be quite handy for academicians and researchers interested in this area.
About the author
Lata Dubey (b.1969) is Professor of English at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, India. She has published more than 25 research papers in reputed national and international journals, including Web of Science and Scopus listed journals. She has authored one book, and contributed five book chapters with national and international publishers including
ibidem
Press. She has been invited as resource person to numerous national and international conferences and delivered lectures in refresher / orientation courses across the country. Prof Dubey has coordinated UGC HRDC Refresher course in 2023. She is on the editorial board of many distinguished peer-reviewed journals.
Ashish Kumar Pathak (b.1985) studied at the University of Allahabad and distinguished as Gold Medalist in English. Having obtained the degree of D. Phil. on T. S. Eliot, he is currently teaching as Assistant professor in the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P. India. Previously he taught at Central University of South Bihar. Patna University and Vasanta College for Women, Rajghat, Varanasi. Dr Pathak is author of the book
T. S. Eliot’s Later Phase: A Study of Poetry,Drama and Criticism
(Luminous Books, 2017) along with publishing research articles and chapters in national and internation journals and anthologies. His translation work has been published from the
Sahitya Akademi
, New Delhi (2023).
The author of the foreword: Prof Dr Saugata Bhaduri teaches at the Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Summary
Postcolonial Literature in the New Millennium: Philosophy, Politics, and Aesthetics
features 16 essays written by scholars who explore the multivalent offshoot of postcolonial literature in the first quarter of the 21st century. The texts and contexts taken up in different essays engage with the contemporary realities of countries and regions that were once a part of the Commonwealth and have now evolved as independent national, political, and cultural entities while resisting colonialism and reconstructing new identities at the same time. If deliberations on nation, home, displacement, and migration represent the consciousness of communities inflicted with a sense of loss and trauma, the advent of health humanities, graphic novels, cinema, and digital humanities intersect with the advancement on the wave of modernity. Since the progress of such societies is concomitant with the rise of discourses from the margin, there are essays on the subtle nuances of Dalit, gender, and tribal identities. Environmental crises along with pandemics, an inevitable outcome of the technology-driven progress, and their impact on indigenous communities have been the core concern of some essayists, while a few have speculated about eco-futurism and post-humanism. This anthology of critical writings with its kaleidoscopic range encompassing recent scholarships will be quite handy for academicians and researchers interested in this area.
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"Postcolonial studies is perhaps the most dynamic field of work in the humanities and social sciences today. This new collection, edited by Professors Dubey and Pathak, brings together a dozen contributors with diverse backgrounds and interests to explore some of the important but under-researched areas in this constantly changing domain."
- Prof Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut, USA, author of What is Colonialism? (Routledge 2023)
