• 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

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.

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.

• 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