Beyond the Postmodern: Interventions and Investigations

• ISBN13: 9789372261783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: August 7, 2026
• Pages: 189
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 390 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Historical / Colonial America & Revolution, Semiotics & Theory, and Modern / 20th Century

Beyond the Postmodern: Interventions and Investigations boldly explores the evolving intellectual landscape after postmodernism. Through a diverse array of essays, the volume interrogates enduring themes—from orientalism, biopolitics, trauma, identity, and popular culture—while exploring new frontiers like cyberpunk, interactive fiction, and the meta-ephemeral multiverse. By re-examining foundational texts and analyzing contemporary narratives across film and literature, it investigates how we understand Truth, Selfhood, and the Other in a rapidly changing world. The volume offers fresh critical pathways for the 21st century, making it a timely contribution to contemporary critical discourse in literature, culture, and theory.

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats is a remarkable corpus of verse that traces the evolution of one of literature's most influential poetic voices. Spanning decades of creative life, the collection reflects Yeats's journey from romantic idealism to a more complex and often troubled vision of the modern world. His poems move through themes of love, mythology, nationalism and the passage of time, shaped by both personal experience and the shifting tides of history. From the dreamlike beauty of early works to the stark intensity of his later poetry, Yeats crafts a world where imagination and reality constantly intertwine. This collection features some of his finest works, including The Wild Swans at Coole (1917), The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) offering readers a poetic journey rich in symbolism and emotional depth. This enduring collection continues to resonate as a testament to poetry's power to capture both the spirit of an age and the inner life of the human soul.

Dr. Gyanabati Khuraijam is an Associate Professor (English) and HoD of the Department of Management, Humanities & Social Sciences at National Institute of Technology, Agartala. She also serves as Chairman of the Women Empowerment Committee of the department and was Editor-in-chief of the journal Modern Research Studies from 2014 to 2019. Her research interests include Commonwealth Literature, Indian Writing in English, Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, among others. With over 16 years of teaching experience, she has to her credit several journal articles and book chapters, ten edited books, and one authored book.

Dr. Yumnam Oken Singh is currently serving as an Assistant Professor of English at Central Agricultural University, Imphal. Previously, he taught at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya and Mount Everest College, Manipur. He earned his PhD from Manipur University and also served as Managing Editor of the journal Modern Research Studies. You can reach him at https://yumoken.wordpress.com.

Introduction

Gyanabati Khuraijam & Yumnam Oken Singh

• 1. Orientalism and The Archaeology of Knowledge: Did Edward Said Misread Michel Foucault?

Dr. Arunoday Majumder

• 2. Queerbaiting as Represented through a FemaleProtagonist in Anand Tiwari’s Maja Ma

Noopur Thakkar & Richa Mishra

• 3. Revisiting the Miraculous: Postsecular Readingof the “Disrobing of Draupadi” Episode of the Mahabharata

Sudesha Das

• 4. Navigating Indian-ness: A Study on Pop-Culture Narratives

Nikita Chung

• 5. From a Common-Being to a Craft-Becoming: Unveiling Some of the Cyberpunkish Traits in Hari Kunzru’s Transmission and S.B. Divya’s Runtime

Souvik Aich

• 6. Paper to Pixel: Exploring the Metamorphosis ofDetective Fiction from Novels to InteractiveGaming

Tejaswinee Bhattacharjee

• 7. Placing the Other within a Democracy

Zaara Urouj

• 8. Void Culture and Revolution of the Avatars

Aleksandar Petrovic

• 9. Navigating Meta-Ephemeral Multiverse throughPound’s Vortex Coils: A Study of PsychosomaticJourney in Marvel’s Doctor Strange

Dr. Prasanta Ghoshal

• 10. Routes of Resistance: Biopolitical Tendencies inPost-Truth Paradigms in Maxim Gorky’s Mother

Angadbir Singh Kakkar

• 11. Progression towards Postmodern Female Identity inAnita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting

Dr. Ahanthem Anita Devi

• 12. Scrutinizing the Traumatic Sense in Post-Modernism through William Styron’s Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

Iniya Priyadharshini

• 13. Anorexia Nervosa as an Enigmatic PsychologicalConcern in Postmodern Young Adult Novels: Stevie’s Journey towards Self Knowledge in Meg Haston’s Paperweight

Debasmita Nag & Gyanabati Khuraijam

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