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Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of “border crossings” and represent important contributions to the discourses on modernity, diasporic mobility, populism, migration, exile, sub-nation, trans-nation, as well as the formation of nationalities, communities, and identities. Borders, in these contexts, signify social and national inequities and hierarchies and also the ways to challenge and transgress entrenched barriers sanctioned by habit, custom, and law. The volume also honors and celebrates the life and work of Amritjit Singh as a teacher, mentor, author, scholar, and editor over half a century.
Pushed to the Brink
This collection of stories and poems has been put together over a period of time. Each story may or may not have a kernel of truth in it and brings out a facet of life that we encounter. Though the plot appears simple, there are nuances to the characters and the storylines that go beyond the story. They reflect the complexities and unpredictability in any human interaction. Since women generally live their lives with very little control - they adapt, accept or may be even rebel when pushed to the brink - with dire consequences. The ideas for the stories may be just a setting or a chance encounter with a person or a completely fictionalised version of an event. The characters either change or...
The Artist and the Artistry : Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English
The Critical volume of essays entitled The Artist and the Artistry: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English is a scholarly interpretation of critical essays in Indian Writing in English. It includes essays on all genres i.e. Poetry, Drama, Fiction, and Short fiction. Diversity is the chief forte of the critical volume of essays. Writers are established and their works have received international recognition. The author of this volume has explored the unexplored vistas of those impressive elements in a lucid and analytical narration. Criticism is heightened and the beauties of which can be seen in the essays.
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Text, Context and Construction of Identity
Language is central to our existence and it happens to be the most sophisticated product of the human mind. It is inconceivable to think of ourselves, our societies, our ideas, cultures or identities without language. It is the primary means of socialization, and whatever we know is a result of it. It is the primary medium of construction and dissemination of knowledge, and structures our thought processes in important ways that constitute our identity. In very complex ways, it interacts with the social, political and economic power structures that remain significant in defining the identities of individuals and societies. The essays in this volume create an awareness and understanding about the role of linguistic context in negotiating identity. The book explains identity and the complex relations between language and several aspects of our society. It explores identity through text and context, and will serve to trigger a novel discourse around the centrality of identity in contemporary society.
Insurgent Imaginations
This book illustrates how internationalist writers marginalized the West and placed the non-Western regions in a new center.
Revisiting India's Partition
Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics brings together scholars from across the globe to provide diverse perspectives on the continuing impact of the 1947 division of India on the eve of independence from the British Empire. The Partition caused a million deaths and displaced well over 10 million people. The trauma of brutal violence and displacement still haunts the survivors as well as their children and grandchildren. Nearly 70 years after this cataclysmic event, Revisiting India’s Partition explores the impact of the “Long Partition,” a concept developed by Vazira Zamindar to underscore the ongoing effects of the 1947 Partition upon all South As...
Transcultural Humanities in South Asia
This volume looks at the implications of transcultural humanities in South Asia, which is becoming a crucial area of research within literary and cultural studies. The volume also explores various complex critical dimensions of transculturation, its indeterminate periodisation, its temporal and spatial nonlinearity, its territoriality and intersectionality. Drawing on contributors from around the globe, the entries look at literature and poetics, theory and praxis, borders and nations, politics, Partition, gender and sexuality, the environment, representations in art and pedagogy and the transcultural classroom. Using key examples and case studies, the contributors look at current developments in transcultural and transnational standpoints and their possible educational outcomes. A broad and comprehensive collection, as it also speaks about the value of the humanities and the significance of South Asian contexts, Transcultural Humanities in South Asia will be of particular interest to those working on postcolonial studies, literary studies, Asian studies and more.
Writing Gender, Writing Nation
This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women’s fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, geographical, caste, class, and regional contexts. Indian women’s writing across languages, texts, and contexts constitutes a unique narrative of the post-independence nation. This volume highlights the ways in which women writers negotiate the patriarchal biases embedded in the epistemological and institutional structures of the post-independence nation-state. It discusses works of famous Indian authors like Amrita Pritam, Jyotirmoyee Devi, Mannu Bhandari, Mahasweta Devi, Mridula Garg, Nayantara Sahgal, Indira Goswami, and Alka Saraogi, to name a few, and facilitates a pan-Indian understanding of the concerns taken up by these women writers. In doing so, it shows how ideas travel across regions and contribute towards building a thematic critique of the oppressive structures that breed the unequal relations between the margins and the centre. The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women’s studies, South Asian literature, political sociology, and political studies.
Business English
Written from an Indian perspective, Business English prepares students for the emerging global business sector by making them aware of the need to adopt a sensitive approach towards business communication. Its unique pedagogical features include illustrations; practical guides; boxes with easy references; exhaustive examples that reflect the changing business world; charts and diagrams as value-addition to the text; and exercises to help in improving linguistic skills.
