Postcolonial Theory and Literature (Hardbound - 2020)

This anthology offers new modes of response in the theory and practice of postcoloniality. While taking stock of the postcolonial theoretical constructs it stresses the need for viable critical models to match the creative spectrum evidenced in postcolonial societies. It provides a pointer to the various means of the imperial centre to falsify, mythicise and control postcolonial studies as the development of local/national models of criticism gains in importance.

The book, in its wide-ranging sweep, covers different terrains—canonical texts, emerging literatures and native Indian literatures—and subjects some individual texts to closer critical scrutiny. It takes into its fold different genres and explores the possibilities of alternative critical viewpoints.

It will be highly useful to students, teachers and researchers of English literature.

P. Mallikarjuna Rao is Professor of English in Kakatiya University, Warangal (Andhra Pradesh). His articles have appeared in leading journals and reference works in India and abroad. He is deeply interested in American, Canadian and African fiction apart from spiritual and cultural issues.

Rajeshwar Mittapalli is Associate Professor of English at Kakatiya University, Warangal (Andhra Pradesh), India. His published works of criticism include The Novels of Wole Soyinka and Indian Women Novelists and Psychoanalysis. He has edited several anthologies of literary essays. Some of them are: Post-modernism and English Literature; Indian Fiction in English; Studies in Indian Writing in English (Volume 1 & 2); Post-Independence Indian English Fiction; Commonwealth Fiction: Twenty-first Century Readings; Modern American Literature and IT Revolution, and Globalization and the Teaching of English.

He has published a large number of articles on Indian, African and American fiction and ELT in reputed journals like New Quest; ARTS Research; Indian Literature; The Journal of Indian Writing in English; Commonwealth Quarterly; The Commonwealth Review and Revaluations.

K. Damodar Rao is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Kakatiya University, Warangal (Andhra Pradesh). Apart from a full-length critical work The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah, he has published several articles on African fiction, Indian writing in English and Telugu literature in reputed journals. Damodar Rao also has to his credit four translated works of poetry and more than a hundred published poems in English translation.