Name: Looking for Home: Journey and Boundary in Postmodern Texts
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ISBN13: 9788126931507
Binding: Hardcover
Subject: English Literature
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
Publication Date: June 15, 2020
Pages: 212
Original Price: INR 695.0
Language: English
Edition: N/A
Item Weight: 360 grams
BISAC Subject(s): Writing / General

About The Book

Home has always been a centre of contention, contestation, and construction. It has never been a constant—a truth that contemporary life asserts more strongly than ever. In order to create a home people have moved across several boundaries, and to protect the home-construction people have created a number of boundaries. This book looks at the former—the journey for finding or creating a home and how the journey and the course often brings the migrants to or leaves them in problematic spaces. These people remain migrants, or immigrants, or refugees, or such. They are rarely integrated and can rarely find integration within. Identity for them remains an irreconcilable issue. History bears witness, but literature captures the trauma, the agony, and the process that seldom ends in clo-sure. This book looks at a handful of narratives belonging to the time considered to be postmodern. Along with the people who seek home, there are texts or stories or characters that also migrate. This book looks at a few such mi-grations. The latter exploration is tentative and cursory. Hopefully, all these journeys shall open the space for dis-cussions on the ever-relevant home issue. Initiating such deliberations is the primary aim of this book.

About The Author

Siddhartha Biswas, B.A. (Presidency College), M.A. (University of Calcutta), Ph.D. (University of Calcutta), is currently an Associate Professor in English at the Department of English, University of Cal-cutta. He has also taught as an Assistant Professor in English at the Department of English, St Paul’s Cathedral Mission Col-lege, Kolkata, for 17 years before joining the University. His research interests include Modern and Post-modern Theatre, Translation Stud-ies, and Popular Culture. His doctoral work was on the screenplays of Harold Pinter. He has written a number of articles in the reputed journals in India and abroad. His authored books include The-atre Theory and Performance: A Critical Interrogation (Cambridge Scholars Pub-lishing, U.K.) among others. He has also translated a number of works among which his translations of The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night (Monfakira) may be mentioned.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
List of Contributors
Exclusion and Migration: The De-Constructed Home
1. “What have we to do with Pakistan? We were born here”: Exodus Revisited in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan
Paramita Dutta
2. Making a Journey and Resisting It: Ambiguity and Paradox in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills
Sharanya Dutta
3. From Bangladesh to Brick Lane: Leaving the Home in Search of a New World
Trayee Sinha
4. Ashima and Alienation in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake: From Myth to Modernity
Mohona Chatterjee
Being at Home:(Dis)Locating the Self
5. Exile is Not Home: A Reading of Chinua Achebe’s Home and Exile
Debaditya Mukhopadhyay
6. Displacement and Madness: Situating (Mad) Woman Outside the Attic
Samata Biswas
7. The Eternal Quest: Home and the Homeless in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Zenith Roy
8. Run Forrest Run: To Home and Away
Susmita Paul
9. Life’s Tentative Journeys: The Fable-Fact Interface in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist
Rudrashis Datta
10. The Ones Who Fell Through: Home of the Dispossessed in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arpa Ghosh
11. Home and Identity in Ritwik Ghatak’s Films
Pritha Kundu
12. Undesirable Aliens: Fissures of Nation, Polis and Self in District 9
Abin Chakraborty
Reinventing Location: Texts in Search of a Home
13. From Heart of Darkness to Apocalypse Now: The Changing Face of Text-ness
Sagnik Banerjee
14. Comics Journalism and the Question of Authenticity: A Reading of Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde
Saikat Sarkar
15. Anxiety of Acceptance: Recent Popular Representations of Gothic on Screen
Nivedita Bachhar
16. Outward Journey Inward: Blurred Boundaries in Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
Rishiraj Pal
17. Shifting Locations
Cordelia from King Lear to Lear
Siddhartha Biswas

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