The English Paradigm in India : Essays in Language, Literature and Culture

✍ Scribed by Shweta Rao Garg, Deepti Gupta

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
Introduction (Shweta Rao Garg, Deepti Gupta)....Pages 1-5
Comparative Literature in India in the Twenty-first Century (Avadhesh Kumar Singh)....Pages 7-30
Confronting the Canon Contrapuntally: The Example of Edward Said (Fakrul Alam)....Pages 31-47
Debating, Challenging or Accepting Patriarchy? Assessing Indian Women’s Role in Society and Creative Writing (Somdatta Mandal)....Pages 49-71
Social Imagination and Nation Image: Exploring the Sociocultural Milieu in Regional Indian Short Stories Translated in English (Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry)....Pages 73-89
Idli, Dosai, Sambar, Coffee: Consuming Tamil Identity (G. J. V. Prasad)....Pages 91-100
Curfewed Night in Elsinore: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (Shormishtha Panja)....Pages 101-109
Interrogating Gendered Spirituality in Phaniyamma and The Saga of South Kamrup (Jaiwanti Dimri)....Pages 111-124
Resisting Patriarchy Without Separatism: A Re-Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors (Suraj Gunwant, Rashmi Gaur)....Pages 125-138
Cultural Assimilation and the Politics of Beauty in Postwar American Fiction by Ethnic Women Writers (Nilanjana Ghosal, Srirupa Chatterjee)....Pages 139-151
Agha Shahid Ali and Contemporary World Poetry (M. L. Raina)....Pages 153-165
Critique of Normality in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree (Sanjoy C K, Gurumurthy Neelakantan)....Pages 167-183
The Personal Is Political: Slavery, Trauma, and the White Man’s Legacy (Lekha Roy)....Pages 185-196
Women in Diaspora, Stranded on the No-Man’s Land: A Study of Selected Works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Deepti Gupta, Sumeet Brar)....Pages 197-204
Food Images and Identity in the Selected Writings of Three Indian American Women Writers (Shweta Rao Garg)....Pages 205-213
Resistance, Resilience, Survival: Role of Family and Community in Jack Davis’s No Sugar (Hem Raj Bansal)....Pages 215-232
Mediation of Multimodal Word Literature and Indirect Translation: Analysing The Adventures of Tintin (Urjani Chakravarty)....Pages 233-241
Institutional Discourses, Technology-Mediated Practices and Pedagogy: A Critical Perspective (Atanu Bhattacharya, Preet Hiradhar)....Pages 243-263
Building Reputational Bridges Over Crises Situations (Asha Kaul, Avani Desai)....Pages 265-284
Observations on an Instance of Negative Interaction in Sarala Mahabharata (B. N. Patnaik)....Pages 285-292
Back Matter ....Pages 293-317