Often a question is raised whether the marginalized can speak. It is a fact that the marginalized cannot stay voiceless for long, they have to speak and find a vent for their fears and anguish. Marginalized voices in American Literature: Margins and Fringes intends to give voice to the unheard, the subaltern voices in American literature and offer a true insight into the way they have tried to suppress and oppress their voices. The eleven essays focus on key literary and cultural texts and cover a broad spectrum of historical, linguistic, and theoretical issues. The modern-day debate in almost every disciplinary area including literature, history, sociology, and political science centers around significant issues of marginality like justice, gender, equality, and inequality. Wide ranging in their focus, highlighting the importance of representation, power, self-definition, and collective identities, the book offers a fascinating and stimulating discussion of questions which are central to the study of human experience and interaction. Hence, the eleven essays in the anthology will prove very relevant to the students and researchers of English Literature.
Professor (Dr.) Sunita Sinha, a gold medalist in English from Patna University, is the Head of the Department of English at Women’s College, Samastipur, affiliated to L.N. Mithila University, Bihar. She has to her credit twenty-five books which have been highly acclaimed in academic circles. Her authored ventures are: Graham Greene: A Study of His Major Novels; Post-Colonial Women Writers: New Perspectives; Twentieth Century Literature: Emerging Trends; and Rethinking Gender: Masculinity, Femininity, and Queerity in Postcolonial Indian Fiction.
Her edited books are: New Urges in Post-Colonial Literature: Widening Horizons; Reconceiving Post-colonialism: Visions and Revisions; Postcolonial Imaginings: Fissions and Fusions; Critical Responses to Kiran Desai; New Perspectives in British Literature, Vols. 1 & 2; Indian Booker Prize Winners: A Critical Study of Their Works, Vols. 1 & 2; Modern Literary Theory, Vols. 1 & 2; Canons of Children’s Literature, Vols. 1 & 2; Shakespeare: A Reappraisal, Vols. 1 & 2; Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence: In Honour of Dr. R.K. Sinha; Indian Women Writing in English: A Feminist Study; Feminism in Literature: Musings and Aesthetics; Feminist Approaches to Literature: Vistas and Perspectives; Exploring Feminism: Essence and Ethos; Young Adult Fiction: Issues and Trends; and Feminist Slants in Contemporary Writings.
Her areas of interest are Postcolonial literature, Gender Studies, Indian, Australian and Canadian literature. Currently, she is the Chief Editor of three international journals, The Atlantic Review of Feminist Studies, The Atlantic Literary Review, and The Atlantic Critical Review; and is also the Honorary Editor/Director for Bihar, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors [P] Ltd.
