• ISBN13: 9788126910816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 15, 2020
• Pages: 208
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 350 grams

The book expresses contemporary consciousness in different genres of English literature from multi-functional perspective. The Nowhere Man brings to the fore the relationship of the orients and the occidents and exposes the problem of transculturation with its diasporic concerns. The Inheritance of Loss in its multi-textured form reflects the experiences of an illegal immigrant. Jhumpa Lahiri in her works appears as an articulate commentator of the maladies of women immigrants. For them, settlement in the new social environment in a foreign country with all its comforts and glamours proves to be a poor substitute for the loss of native moorings. The Impressionist thematises the idea that identity as a concept cannot be basic and invariable. The World According to Hsu refers to the identity reformulations in this age of diasporas and advocates that one’s biological identity may not be the only identity because erosions and accretions are bound to come with the act of emigration. Imtiaz Dharker with her various cultural experiences of Pakistan, India and Britain takes a pluralistic approach in her poems in presenting an image of a disintegrating world. Contemporary theories like Postmodernism, which are allied to present literature, contribute to better understanding of our present social and psychic conditions. The book will be highly useful to the students and teachers of English literature and researchers in this field.

R.P. Pradhan is a gold medallist in M.A. (English) from the University of Allahabad. He got his D. Phil. degree on Saul Bellow from the same university. At present, he is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, V.S.S.D. College, Kanpur. His two books—The Woman in the Novels of Saul Bellow and Studies in the Romantic Poets—have received an overwhelming response from the readers. He has contributed several research papers on different literary subjects in journals of great repute. He has been guiding research scholars working on various aspects of English literature. His area of interest includes contemporary fiction mainly Afro-American, Canadian and Anglo-Indian fiction.

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Poetry
• 1. I Hold Back Nothing: Anne Sexton’s Preoccupations with Love and Death–A.N. Dwivedi
• 2. Edgy Counters: The Poetry of Imtiaz Dharker–K.M. Pandey
• 3. Treatment of Hindu Mythology in Ramanujan’s Second Sight and The Black Hen–Anju Mishra
• Fiction
• 4. Identity as Ideological Strategy: Reading Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist–Banibrata Mahanta
• 5. Scapegoating as a Motif in Morrison’s The Bluest Eye–R.P. Pradhan
• 6. East-West Confrontation in Markandaya’s The Nowhere Man–A.N. Dwivedi and O.P. Dwivedi
• 7. Interrogating Canadian Multiculturalism: Bharati Mukherjee’s The World According to Hsü–Nagendra Kumar
• 8. The Problem of Middle Class Woman in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande The Dark Holds No Terrors, That Long Silence and The Binding Vine–Sanjay Kumar Swarnkar
• 9. Nobel Laureate Jelinek’s Signatures: Truth or Pornography?–Neeru Tandon and Kavita Shukla
• 10. Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine: A Saga of Alienation and Exile–Sanjit Mishra
• 11. The Inheritance of Class–Sarvajit Mukherji
• 12. Ice-Candy Man: A Postcolonial Study–R.P. Pradhan
• 13. Jhumpa Lahiri: Influential Women Characters–Susmita Bhattacharya
• 14. Jhumpa Lahiri: An Articulate Commentator of the Maladies of Indian Immigrants–Supriya Shukla
• 15. Technique of Portrayal in Midnight’s Children–R.P. Pradhan
• Criticism
• 16. Postmodernism: An Overview–R.N. Rai
• 17. Postmodernism: Its Meaning and Significance–G. Rai and Sunita Rai
• 18. Deconstruction, Marxism and Edward Said–Prabin Sinha and R.P. Pradhan
• 19. Homi Bhabha As a Postcolonial Critic–D.K. Singh
• Contributors