Postcolonial Imaginings (Hardcover)  | Released: 2009

Although a relatively new force in academic circles, postcolonialism has rapidly expanded its conceptual reach over recent years so that it now depicts �a remarkably heterogeneous set of subject positions, professional fields and critical enterprises.� Self-consciously a literature of otherness and resistance written out of the specific local experience, postcolonial studies generates new literary avenues and opens up new vistas for the once colonized and to the past imperial forces and serves as a mighty intellectual force.
Postcolonial Imaginings: Fissions and Fusions, is designed to rethink the assumptions and discursive manoeuvres of postcolonialism and assess its relationship to the other spheres of inquiry. In a field as diverse and contentious as postcolonial literary studies, the scholarly articles attempt to introduce the major issues and debates in the postcolonial terrain and aim to address the great scope, rich heterogeneity and vast energy of postcolonial literary studies. The anthology brings together many of the key and well-established contributors to postcolonialism as well as the voices of emergent scholars. The conversational quality of the volume provides a compelling portrait of postcolonialism�s development that will be valuable to all the scholars, students and teachers of English literature.Table of Contents: Preface; 1. New Urges in Postcolonial Literature Hybridity�Joyashri Choudhury; 2. Feminism in Literature�Bhaskar Roy Barman; 3. The Postcolonial Ethos and Indian Masculinities�Purnendu Chatterjee; 4. Wisdom Combats War�Mamta Anand; 5. Magic and Science in Amitav Ghosh�s The Calcutta Chromosome: A Postcolonial Reading�Tripti Karekatti and Ganesh Dive; 6. Interrogating the �law�: Representation, Rebellion and Resistance in The God of Small Things�Sanghita Sen; 7. Post Structuralist Theories, Black and Undergraduate Teachings in India�Asima Ranjan Parhi; 8. The Violence of Love in the Novels of Toni Morrison�Shampa Ghosh; 9. The Trauma of Partition in Azadi�Basavaraj Naikar; 10. Transgressing Sensibilities in Bharati Mukherjee�s Wife and The Holder of the World�Vandana Singh; 11. Tales of a City: Samrat Upadhyay�s The Royal Ghosts�Aroonima Sinha; 12. Empathy and Exile in Taslima Nasreen�s Homecoming (Phera)�Beena Agarwal; 13. Multiculturism: Thematic Concern in Indo-Canadian Drama�N. Sharada Iyer; 14. Heaney�s Views on Poetry: A Reaction to
Ireland�s Cultural and Historical Tradition�Anju Bala Agrawal; 15. Reflections on the Supernatural in Literature with Special Reference to Ruskin Bond�s Short Stories�Norah Nivedita Shaw; 16. Githa Hariharan: An Astute Observer of Cultural Issues�Saloni Kumar; 17. Staying Alive: Nature, Self and Gender in Margaret Atwood�s Surfacing�Lata Dubey; 18. Shobha De: The Writer and Feminism�Bhaskar A. Shukla; 19. Arun Joshi�s Women Characters: An Esoteric Experience�Bhupendra Pratap Singh Chauhan; 20. The Postmodern Global Culture in the Novels of Zadie Smith�Mary Fatima Cross; 21. �Lend me thy ears�: The Voices of the �others� in The God of Small Things�Haris Qadeer; 22. Colonisation, Decolonisation and Neocolonisation in the Oriya Novel Sibavai in English Translation: A Postcolonial Reading�P.C. Pradhan; 23. The Ultimatum: We Are Going�Arindam Das; Contributors