• ISBN13: 9788126902309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 15, 2020
• Pages: 252
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 410 grams

This anthology offers new modes of response in the theory and practice of postcoloniality. While taking stock of the postcolonial theoretical constructs it stresses the need for viable critical models to match the creative spectrum evidenced in postcolonial societies. It provides a pointer to the various means of the imperial centre to falsify, mythicise and control postcolonial studies as the need to develop local/national models of criticism gains in importance. The book, in its wide ranging sweep, covers different terrains—canonical texts, emerging literatures and native Indian literatures—and subjects some individual texts to closer critical scrutiny. It takes into its fold different genres and explores the possibilities of alternative critical viewpoints.

P. Mallikarjuna Rao is Professor of English in Kakatiya University, Warangal, AP. His articles have appeared in leading journals and reference works in India and abroad. He is deeply interested in American, Canadian and African fiction apart from spiritual and cultural issues. Rajeshwar Mittapalli teaches English at Kakatiya University, Warangal, AP. His published works of criticism include The Novels of Wole Soyinka and Indian Women Novelists and Psychoanalysis. He has edited so far 20 anthologies of critical essays. He is currently the editor of The Atlantic Literary Review published from New Delhi. K. Damodar Rao is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Kakatiya University, Warangal. Apart from a full-length critical work The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah he has published several articles on African fiction, IWE and Telugu literature in reputed journals. Damodar Rao also has to his credit four translated works of poetry and more than a hundred published poems in English translation.

• 1. Political Returns: Abuses of the Academy –D. Venkat Rao
• 2. Postmodernism, Discourse and the Colonial Perspective–Shelley Walia
• 3. Towards a Translation Protocol in the Postcolonial India–P. Shiv Kumar
• 4. ‘First World’ within the ‘Third World’: The Universalist Fallacy in Criticism–K. Purushotham and N.S. Rahul
• 5. On the Political Semiotics of Othello’s Otherness: Rallying Round the Postcolonial Aesthetics–Prasenjit Maiti
• 6. Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys: ‘Gendering the Subaltern’–Rama Kundu
• 7. R. Parthasarathy and Poetry as Postcolonial Discourse–P. Mallikarjuna Rao
• 8. Bhabani Bhattacharya’s A Dream in Hawaii: A Study in Postcolonial Spirituality–D. Ramakrishna
• 9. Past and Present in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day–Syed Mujeebuddin
• 10. The Reverse Patterns of Journey in Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock and Where Shall We Go This Summer?–Sanjay Kumar
• 11. Moving the ‘Small’ to the Centre: The God of Small Things: A Study in Style–T. Vinoda
• 12. Urban Bias as Postcolonial Distortion: A Note on Badal Sircar’s Third Theatre–E. Renuka and Shampa Bhattacharjee
• 13. Douloti as a National Allegory–Jaidev
• 14. Recovery of the Subordinate Self: Postcolonial Problematics in Devil on the Cross, Jagua Nana and Sula–Ashok K. Mohapatra
• 15. The ‘Psychic Arena’ in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power A Study–R. Saraswati
• 16. Affirmation of Self in Ngugi’s The River Between –Mohamed Osman Gheleway
• 17. Nationalism in Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners –P. Mallikarjuna Rao and M. Prabhakar
• 18. The Context of Regionalism in Margaret Laurence’s Manawaka Fiction–K. Damodar Rao and M. Surendra Kumar
• 19. The Polemics of Postcolonial Writing: Marlatt’s Ana Historic and Nourbese’s ‘Discourse on the Logic of Language’