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This book presents thirty-three essays examining postcolonial literature, cultural studies, and literary pedagogy. Contributors analyze diverse literary traditions including Indian progressive poetry, Dalit autobiographies, African literature, and Caribbean writing. The volume explores themes of gender, identity, migration, and digital humanities while examining works by authors from Premchand to contemporary writers, besides which it also offers:
- Comprehensive collection of 33 scholarly essays examining diverse aspects of postcolonial literature and cultural studies
- Interdisciplinary approach covering Indian, African, Caribbean, and diasporic literary traditions
- Critical analysis of progressive aesthetics, Dalit literature, and gender representation in contemporary writing
- Examination of digital humanities and raciolinguistic perspectives in literary studies
- Tribute volume featuring extensive analysis of Harish Narang's literary contributions and pedagogical philosophy
The book offers a special focus on Professor Harish Narang's literary contributions includes critical essays and an exclusive interview. With foreword by Kapil Kapoor, this collection offers comprehensive perspectives on literature, politics, and pedagogy in the contemporary global context.
This title has been co-published with Aakar Books. T&F does not sell or distrubute the print versions in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1. Some Fire, Some Dew: Reading the Poetry of Pash, Dil and Shiv
2. Doodhnath Singh's 'Mai Ka Shok Geet': An Intervention into the Formation of New India and its Lessons for Emancipatory National Liberation Discourses Today
3. Progressive Aesthetics and the Discourse of Modernity: A Close Reading of Premchand's 'Kafan' and 'Thakur ka Kuan'
4. Poetry and Politics: Azad's Clarion Call
5. Rethinking Intellectual Responses to Colonial Education in India: Bhudeb Mukhopadhyaya - A Case Study
6. The Umbilical Nature-Human Connect: Reading the Sarhul Festival Narratives
7. The Untouchable Goddess of Folklore: A Reading of Chandrasekhar Kambar's Karimayi
8. Gender and/in Nation: Examining the Collective Agency of Women in (Imagining) Meitei Community
9. Parsis of the Indian Subcontinent: A Close Study of Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat
10. Dalit Literature from Bengal: An Overview
11. Representation of Social Realities in Dalit Autobiographies
12. The Choice of Language: Literary Production in a Minor Genre
13. Interrogating the Spatial Turn
14. Whitening Voices and Black Lives Matter: A Raciolinguistic Enquiry
15. Digital Avatar of Colonial Hegemony and How to Count in Indian Language Texts
16. The Fall of Superstardom: OTTs Platforms and the Lockdown Malayalam Movies
17. Partitioning Gender: Violence and Misgendering in Qissa: The Tale of a Legendary Ghost (2013)
18. Luggage or Lineage? Examining Memories and Migrant Communities in M.G. Vassanji's The Gunny Sack and The Book of Secrets
19. Dynamics of Religion and Rituals: Reading Select Travelogues of V.S. Naipaul and M.G. Vassanji
20. A Trip Down the Memory Lane: A Sneak Peek into the Nostalgic Sentiments of Vassanji's Karsan Dargawala
21. The Politics of Self-fashioning: A Comparative Study of Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen and Toni Morrison's Tar Baby
22. Marginal Voices and Othered Spaces: Short Stories by Bessie Head, Ama Ata Aidoo and M.M.
23. Re-scripting a Feminine Landscape: The Poetry of Judith Wright and Kamala Das
24. Politics and African Literature: A Narrative of Struggles, Identity and Change
25. Performing Cultural Identities: Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests and Death and the King's Horseman
26. Towards Alternative Histories and Filmmaking: Postcolonialism and Feminist Thoughts in Sembene Ousmane's Xala, and Black Girl
27. Exploring Identity, Gender and Empowerment in Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather
28. Derek Walcott and His Predilection with Names
29. To Manto with Love from Harish Narang, Nandita Das and Ketan Mehta
30. Literature as History of 'Mentalities': Reading Harish Narang's Sunte The Sahar Hogi
31. On the 'Writings' of Harish Narang...
32. Creative Writing is an Ethical Question (Literature, Politics, Commitment and Pedagogy in the Age of Globalization)
33. In His Own Voice: An Interview with Professor Harish Narang
Afterword
Language and Literature: A Language Teacher's Perspective
Contributors
About the author
Madhumita Chakraborty is Professor in the Department of English, Zakir Hussain Delhi College (Evening), University of Delhi, India. Her areas of interest include African Literatures in English, Media and Popular Culture, and Diaspora.
Anuradha Ghosh is Professor in the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India. Her areas of interest include Literature, Cinema and the Allied Arts, Translation and Adaptation Studies, Literary Theory and Philosophy.
Mukesh Ranjan is Professor in the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India. His areas of interest include Poetry, Literary Criticism and Theory, African Literature in English, Translation Studies, Postcolonialism, Indian Poetics and Intellectual Traditions.
