• ISBN13: 9788126919659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: July 22, 2018
• Pages: 312
• Original Price: INR 795.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 419 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

The book has extended and widened the implications of the term “New Literatures in English” to include an assessment of New Humanities and other areas which continue to attract the polyphony of marginal voices in the critical arena of literature which is simultaneously local, mofussil, regional, national, transnational, global, glocal and finally, universal. — Prof. S.Z.H. Abidi Former Head of the Dept. of English and MEL, University of Lucknow The anthology Major Voices in New Literatures in English deals with multifarious modes of colonial and postcolonial studies in the light of constantly changing human relations and their identity with harmonizing effect of the polyphony dissolving national, geographical, communal and religious boundaries and disrupting all levels of hierarchy. The book proceeds with the emergence of “New Literatures” as a reaction against British colonization of the Third World territories, evolution of Feminism as a reaction against physical and psychological colonization of women, prominence of multiculturalism (implication of local dialects) as a reaction against linguistic colonization, and Dalit narratives as a protest against internal colonization that resulted in Bakhtin’s polyphony registering significance of all voices and recreating universal ‘glocal’ human identity. Major Voices in New Literatures in English is a postcolonial offshoot which is replete with the voices of resistance against the First World and counter reaction of the Third World countries such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, South Africa, etc. to the same. Originating from resistance against colonialism, it comes to recognition of its own identity and finally struggles to assert its genius all around and its worth at the global platform of epistemic market. Thus, the present anthology shows that the New Literatures are an evidence of polyphony (multiple voices) which has succeeded in changing the Western outlook from xenophobia to xenophilia.

Dr. Bishun Kumar shares his academic pursuits of knowledge and thoughts as Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow with a Doctoral degree on Mulk Raj Anand from University of Lucknow. Besides editing present anthology he has also edited Discursive Passages: An Anthology of Diaspora Criticism (Volume I & II) in collaboration with Dr. Ajay K. Chaubey, Asst. Professor, NIT Uttarakhand published from Yking Books, Jaipur and Mahesh Dattani: Themes, Techniques and Issues in collaboration with Dr. Neha Arora. He is also Assistant Editor of The SPIEL, a Society for the Promotion of Indian English Literature and is a member of many research and academic bodies. He has published many research papers and critical essays of the diverse fields in different reputed international journals and anthologies. Dr. Neha Arora shares her knowledge as Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer. She has achieved her Doctoral degree on Dalit Literature from University of Lucknow. Besides editing the present volume she has also co-edited Mahesh Dattani: Themes, Techniques and Issues and has published papers on varied themes, ranging from Dalit Literature to African and to Indian English Literature, in reputed national and international journals. She is also Associate Editor of The Expression: An International Bi-Monthly Multidisciplinary e-Journal and member of Editorial Boards of many academic bodies such as Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies and Alchemist Journal of Humanities.

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• List of Contributors

• Section A

• New Literatures and Post-colonial Voices
• 1. Defining ‘Myself’...‘My Home’...‘Myness’ in Sally Morgan’s My Place
• Neha Arora
• 2. A Postcolonial Reading of Selected Poems of Judith Wright
• Tuhin Majumdar and Nandini Maity
• 3. Choosing One’s Heritage to Write Back: Nation, Culture and Identity in Things Fall Apart
• Pravin K. Patel
• 4. Shakespeare’s The Tempest as Toufann: The Empire Writes Back
• Mustabshira Siddiqui
• 5. Unconventionality Explored: A Stylistic and Thematic Study of Toni Morrison’s Fiction
• Syed Wahaj Mohsin
• 6. ‘Moslem Ruin on Hindu Ruin, Moslem on Moslem’: V.S. Naipaul’s Post-colonial Perspectives on Muslim Imperialism in India
• Ajay K. Chaubey
• 7. Foregrounding the Dalit Experiences: Mulk Raj Anand in Untouchable
• Afrinul Haque Khan
• 8. Bhasha and Dalit Literature: A Critical Exploration of K. A. Gunasekaran’s The Scar
• Mohammad Tariq

• Section B

• New Literatures in English and Feminist Voices
• 9. A Comparative Analysis of the Portrayal of African Women by Achebe and Ngugi
• Amna Shamim
• 10. Self and Social Identity: Orientation of New Woman in Manju Kapur’s A Married Woman
• Khushboo Batra
• 11. Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters: Emergence of Feminist Institution
• Richa Bijalwan
• 12. Journey Towards Wholeness: Quest in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupé
• M. Sivapriya
• 13. Gender and Societal Space: A Feminist Reading of Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel
• Prithvi Raj Singh Chauhan and Sushant Chaturvedi
• 14. Githa Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night: Voice against Traditions, Myths and Stereotypes
• Suman Pathak

• Section C

• New Literatures and Diaspora Voices/Creole
• 15. Migrants as Loaners: Linguistic Ingenuity in the Novels of the Indian Diaspora
• Shuby Abidi
• 16. Negotiation of Bengali Diasporic Culture: A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
• Subrata Kumar Das
• 17. Recreating Nations: Contemporary Ethnicities and Counter-Histories in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh
• Sunil Kumar
• 18. South Asian Diasporic Women in Double Jeopardy: A Study of Rana Bose’s On the Double
• Ashish Kumar Sharma

• Section D

• New Literatures in English, Universalism and World Literature
• 19.Representation of the Himalayan Tribes in Anuradha Roy’s The Folded Earth
• N. Karthiyayeni
• 20. Munshi Premchand: Voice of the Society
• Then,Now and Forever
• Runoo Ravi
• 21. Post-fatwa Rushdie: A Journey from Textuality, Intertextuality to Surtextuality in Luka and the Fire of Life
• Valiur Rahman