• ISBN13: 9788126931316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 15, 2020
• Pages: 290
• Original Price: INR 895.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 440 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Modernist Approaches to English Fiction is an anthology of twenty-five articles exploring contemporary writing in English from the perspective of the recent changes in the approach of the novelists to ensure national and international visibility of their works. The articles in this volume persuasively argue that recent literary fiction has moved away through formal innovation. The book covers the discourse in a range of postmodern works that focus not only on plot or character development but also on meta reference to create a narrative assemblage for the reader. Among the contributors to this anthology, some are established critics and have many published works to their credit, the others are voracious readers and budding scholars. Scholars from Japan, Iran, and India have contributed their critical articles in this anthology. This book will be useful for graduate and post graduate students of English literature.

Neeru Tandon, M.A., L.L.B. Ph.D., D.Litt (topper and gold medallist from Kanpur University), is the only Professor of CSJMU Kanpur to have the degree of D.Litt in English since its inception. She is an editor, author, critic, feminist, poet, actor, anchor and a social worker too. Presently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, VSSD College, Kanpur. Dr. Tandon has several publications to her credit that includes 25 books and 78 research papers. She is a course coordinator at IGNOU (M.Phil program on gender study) and CSJMU. She takes personality development and English-speaking classes for professionals in various institutes. She is also the Chief Editor of ILLUMINATI, (an international journal) and Associate Editor of The Atlantic Critical Review, New Delhi.

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Contributors
• 1. The Second Coming of Indian Fiction in English: 1990s and After
• Anuradha Marwah
• 2. Problematics of Translation and Writing in a Second Language
• Mariam Karim Ahlawat
• 3. Translation: A Social Fact and Practice (Hindi Short Stories by Ravi Nandan Sinha)
• Jayshree Singh
• 4. Slow Winds of Change: The Woman’s Question in Contemporary Fiction in India
• G.K. Das
• 5. Nagai Kafø and Okina Kyøin and the Literary Portrayal of Japanese Immigrant Women in the U.S.
• Ikuko Torimoto
• 6. Midnight’s Children as a Bildungsroman: A Narrative of Failure Eiko Ohira
• 7. The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Proposing an Alternative Postcolonial Epistemology
• Hameeda Nayeem
• 8. Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland: A Narrative Pattern of a Broken Family
• Binod Mishra
• 9. Separation as the Emergence of a New and Independent Self: A Psychological Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s A Temporary Matter
• Motaleb Azari
• 10. Elizabeth Dalloway’s ‘Chinese Eyes’: Virginia Woolf and the Age of Japonisme
• Noriko Kubota
• 11. Single by Choice or Circumstance: Women in Indian Popular Fiction
• Neeta Shukla
• 12. Towards Constructing Dalit Aesthetics
• Jaydeep Sarangi
• 13. A Critique of Global Dalit Identity in Narendra Jadhav’s Outcaste: A Memoir
• Banibrata Mahanta
• 14. The Subversion of Panopticism in Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Anandamath
• Panchali Mukherjee
• 15. The Essence of Worldliness: A Reading of Rita Joshi’s Campus Novel The Awakening: A Novella in Rhyme
• Swati Rai
• 16. Postcolonial Dilemmas in Laurence’s This Side Jordan
• Neera Singh
• 17. The God of Small Things: The Politics of Language and The Language of Politics
• Kalikinkar Pattanayak
• 18. Eco-aesthetics in The God of Small Things
• Ambika Bhalla
• 19. Negotiating in Between: Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters as a Tale of Existential Struggle
• Chitra Thrivikraman Nair
• 20. Bharati Mukherjee’s Dimple: Exiled Sita?
• Gharge Sunita Sunil
• 21. Basavaraj Naikar’s Light in the House: A Hagiographical Novel
• Meenakshi Sundaram
• 22. Womanism and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
• Nidhi Arora
• 23. Alexithymia, Gender Difference and Institutionalized Sex Inequality in the Novels of Elfriede Jelinek and Toni Morrison
• Neeru Tandon and Kavita Tiwari
• 24. Problematizing Social Issues from Human Rights Perspectives: A Critique of Mahasweta Devi’s The Glory of Sri Sri Ganesh
• Koyal Chakrabarty
• 25. The Inheritance of Loss: An Insight into the Internal and External Conflict of Class, Race and Culture
• Reshu Shukla