• ISBN13: 9788126931736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: May 25, 2021
• Pages: 368
• Original Price: INR 995.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 460 grams

With its peculiarities, socio-political and religious similarities and differences, South Asia, as a region carries many significant characteristics. Through this book an attempt has been made to showcase the nuances of South Asian literature, culture, and society. It is an attempt to reflect and reverberate varied aspects of the subcontinent. It tries to give a global perspective where readers, scholars, and academicians can read, understand, realize, and appreciate the socio-cultural and literary traits of South Asia. The book has been divided into two parts. The first part, namely “Mapping South Asian Literature” contains twenty-nine research articles which vividly explicate some noteworthy literary works of this region. The second part of this volume, namely “Glimpses of South Asian Culture and Society” consists of eight scholarly articles which define a few traits of South Asian society and culture. Despite many socio-cultural, political, religious, and economic conflicts, South Asian countries are united by a cultural proximity, and this book conforms to the notion and endeavours to explore the literary and socio-culture landscape of South Asia. The book discusses the writings in English and that in the native tongues of prominent authors such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Amitav Ghosh, Kamala Markandaya, Namita Gokhale, Mohsin Hamid, Ashapurna Debi, Nirmal Bose, Orijit Sen, Vijay Tendulkar, Badal Sircar, and Taslima Nasrin. It includes essays not just on the novelists, but also on poets like Kamala Das and Eunice de Souza, and playwrights like Asif Currimbhoy. Second part of the book goes beyond literature to take up issues concerning culture and society, such as archaeology, religion, mythology, health, gender, ecology, modernity, and tribes.

Dr. Goutam Karmakar, M.A. (English), PGDFCS (Post-Graduate Diploma in Folklore and Culture Studies), Ph.D. (English), is an Assistant Professor of English at Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, West Bengal, India. He has completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Durgapur (NITD), West Bengal, India. His essays, research papers, book reviews and poems have been published in many reputed international journals. He has taken interviews of many notable Indian poets writing in English. He has edited four critical books on Indian poetry in English. His latest anthology on Indian poetry in English has come out from Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi in 2020. He seeks interest in Indian Writings in English, South Asian Literature, Film Studies, Science Fiction, Ecocritical Studies, Dalit literature, Cultural Studies, Trauma and Memory studies. He can be reached at goutamkrmkr@gmail.com.

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction

• Section I

• Mapping South Asian Literature
• 1. Liminality and Second-Generation Indian Migrant’s Subject Position in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Nobody’s Business
• Pankaj Luchan Gogoi
• 2. Of Potent Matchboxes: Reading Women, Space, and Power in Ashapurna Debi’s Wealth (‘Oishorjo’)
• Basudhara Roy
• 3. The Age-old Relationship between Man and River: A Study of Padma Nadir Majhi and The Hungry Tide
• Subhasnata Mohanta
• 4. Exploring Nirmal Bose’s Diary as a Social Document in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
• Syed Foyez Ahmed
• 5. The Prism of Paranoia: A Kaleidoscopic Representation of the Cultural Schizophrenia and Rhizomatic Dialectical Materialism in Orijit Sen’s Graphic Narrative The River of Stories
• Ramprasad Dutta
• 6. A Narratological Study of K.V. Dominic’s “Burn Your Horoscope”
• S. Barathi
• 7. Ashapurna Debi and her Literary Contribution to Feminism in India
• Juhi Gupta
• 8. A Comparative Perspective: A Case Study of Bengali and English Novels of Indian Writers
• Debajit Paul
• 9. Asif Currimbhoy and the Question of Representing Authenticity
• Indrani Chakraborty
• 10. Tracing Man-Woman Relationship of the Victorian Era: A Study of Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire
• Durga Patva
• 11. Breaking the Barriers: Space and Time in Badal Sircar’s Basi Khabar (The Stale News, 1979)
• Subhankar Dutta
• 12. Motherhood and Profession: A Comparative Study of Mahasweta Devi’s Breast-Giver and Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session
• Anirban Kahali
• 13. Who Wants Murder?: Solving Mystery to Confront Nostalgia in Kaye’s Death in the Andamans
• K.B.S. Krishna
• 14. Marginalised Victimhood: Doubly Subjugated and Triply Marginalised with a Detached Subhuman Existence by Hegemonic Caste System: A Case Study of Select Dalit Autobiographies
• Anindita Chowdhury
• 15. A Representation of Unexplored Existential Consciousness in Namita Gokhale’s The Book of Shadows
• Pratibha Patel
• 16. Torn Apart and Tied Up in Relations: Exploration of the Theme of Motherhood and Daughterhood in Kamala Das and Eunice de Souza’s Select Poems
• Anamika Ghosh
• 17. Interrogating the Female Poetic Voice: A Comparative Study of Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das
• Ritushree Sengupta
• 18. Gendered Logic of Indian Nationalism and the Voice of Toru Dutt
• Deepayan Das
• 19. ‘The Triumph of Humanity’: A Stylistic Appraisal of B.K.S. Ray’s Terror Must Die!
• Madhu Kamra
• 20. Hero in Transition: A Study of Dogra Peasant Hero in Ramnath Shastri’s Bawa Jitto
• Vishali Sharma
• 21. The Reverberating Phonemes: A Poststructuralist Study of Rashid Jahan’s Select Works
• Guni Vats and V.P. Singh
• 22. Lack of ‘musawa’: The Issue of Gender Favouritism in Taslima Nasrin’s Lajja and French Lover
• Paulomi Banerjee and Sucheta Kapoor
• 23. “A Bit of Earth which had No Name, Lay Toba Tek Singh”: A Critique of Individual’s Identity in the No-Man’s Land
• Sayani Nayak
• 24. Burdened by Border: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
• Rimpa Roy
• 25. Suggested Socio-Religious Reforms by Regional Sufi (Mystic) Poets: An Analysis of the Select Poets of Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Baluchistan
• Shamaila Amir
• 26. “Where are you going and where have you been?”: A Reading of Adib Khan’s Seasonal Adjustments
• Malini Chongder
• 27. Cultivating Terror, Persecuting Humanity: The Fallacy of Insurgency and the Anxiety of Islam in Khaled Hosseini’s Land of Kite Runner
• Soma Mandal
• 28. Bacha Posh Tradition and Contradictions of Patriarchy in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl that Broke its Shell
• Mahamadul Hassan Dhabak
• 29. The Application of Folklore Principle to Study Select Folktales of India and Bhutan
• S. Chitra and Dechhen Dolma

• Section II

• Glimpses of South Asian Culture and Society
• 30. The Innovation of the Sacred: The Movement of the “Sacredness” of Folk Religious Rituals and the Archaeological Process of Adaptation of Performances
• Anna Lynn Tom and Hemanga Dutta
• 31. River Tunga The Mother of Malenadu: An Ecological Perspective
• Prakash C. Balikai
• 32. The Oneness in the Other: Re-evaluating the Role of Sister Nivedita
• Subhajeet Singha
• 33. Childhood Obesity in South Asia
• Chaitali Bose and Alak Kumar Syamal
• 34. Patriarchy and Female Subordination: Exploring the Equality Debate
• Kauser Tasneem
• 35. Story of Progress: A Study of Narikuravar Tribes in Eraiyur Village at Perambalur District of Tamil Nadu
• K. Subapriya
• 36. Scroll Paintings of Naya: A Study of the Cultural Shift from Myth to Modernity
• Nabanita Dhali
• 37. Ritual, Body, Ecology Interrogating Politics Involved in the Celebration of ‘Menstruation’ in the Raja Festival of Odisha
• Pragnya Parimita Chayani