This collection pulls together a wide range of perspectives to explore the possibilities and the boundaries of the paradigm of English studies in India. It examines national identity and the legacy of colonialism through a study of comparative and multi ethnic literature, education, English language studies and the role ICT now plays in all of these fields. Contributors look at how the issue of identity can be addressed and understood through food studies, linking food, culture and identity. The volume also considers the timely and very relevant question of gender in Indian society, of the role of the woman, the family and the community in patriarchal contemporary Indian society. Through the lens of literature, culture, gender, politics, this exciting volume pulls together the threads which constitute modern Indian identity.
Introduction.- Comparative Literature in India in the 21st
Century.- Confronting the Canon Contrapuntally: the Example of Edward
Said.- Debating, Challenging or Accepting Patriarchy? Assessing Indian
Womens Role in Society and Creative Writing.- Social Imagination and Nation
Image: Exploring the socio-cultural milieu in Regional Indian Short Stories
Translated in English.- Idli, Dosai, Sambar, Coffee: Consuming Tamil
Identity.- Curfewed Night in Elsinore: Vishal Bhardwajs
Haider.- Interrogating Gendered Spirituality in Phaniyamma and The Saga of
South Kamrup.- Resisting Patriarchy Without Separatism: A Re-Reading of
Shashi Deshpandes The Dark Holds No Terrors.- Cultural Assimilation and
the Politics of Beauty in Postwar American Fiction by Ethnic Women
Writers.- Agha Shahid Ali and Contemporary World Poetry.- Critique of
Normality in Cormac McCarthys Suttree.- The Personal is Political: Slavery,
Trauma, and the White Mans Legacy.- Women in Diaspora, Stranded on the
No-Mans Land: A Study of Selected Works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.- Food
Images and Identity in the Selected Writings of Three Indian American Women
Writers.- Resistance, Resilience, Survival: Role of Family and Community in
Jack Daviss No Sugar.- Mediation of Multimodal Word Literature and Indirect
Translation: Analysing The Adventures of Tintin.- Institutional Discourses,
Technology-mediated Practices and Pedagogy: A Critical Perspective.- Building
Reputational Bridges over Crises Situations.- Observations on an Instance of
Negative Interaction in Sarala Mahabharata.
Dr. Shweta Rao Garg teaches at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India. She was awarded Gujarat University Gold medal in English during her B.A. and received a Graduation Scholarship during her M.A. Her research on the depiction of food in Indian-American womens writings earned her a Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in 2010. She also won the Sahitya Akademi Prize for translation in 2008. Dr. Deepti Gupta is a Professor of English and the Dean of International Students at Punjab University, Chandigarh, India. She has more than thirty years of experience in teaching and research with several national and international publications in ELT , Linguistics and Literature.
