Jaydeep Sarangi

Presentations of Postcolonialism in English : New Orientations

Edited by Jaydeep Sarangi, Authorspress, 2007, xii, 282 p, ISBN : 8172733836, Rs. 650.00   Rs. 585.00 (Free shipping within India only. No extras for postage and handling. )

Contents: Preface. 1. Representations of Colonialism in Indian Fiction in English/Rajeshwar Mittapalli. 2. Europe and the new culture/Jose Carlos Redondo Olmedilla. 3. Postcolonialism: theory, issues and applications/Sudhir K. Arora. 4. Empowering the Third World Women: the postcolonial perspective/Gajendra Kumar. 5. Going back to Ireland--Irish Homes in Bernard Maclavery's Grace Notes and Vincent Woods's A Cry From Heaven/Elisa Armellino. 6. Benjamin's Ambivalence Towards the City and Sex: reading Baudelaire in illuminations and reflections/Beerendra Pandey. 7. Grounding the text: acts of translations and the representation of the Hindu World/Alessandro Monti. 8. Marginals, education and postcolonial society/C. Kodhandaraman. 9. "Every Poem Becomes Dangerous": the aesthetics of resistance in contemporary Nigerian Poetry/Sule E. Egya. 10. The Spanism imagination exploring India: a postcolonial study/Antonia Navarro Tejero. 11. Voice of minority in new literature: Canada and India/M.B. Gaijan. 12. Neither on either side nor in-between: the Anglo-Indian and Postcolonial Indian Fiction in English/V. Padma. 13. The politics of correctness: India in translation/Malati Mathur. 14. English... New Englishes....Canadian English...Whither English?/D. Venkataramanan. 15. Tibetan Diasporic Poetry and the politics of neglect/Archana Sahni. 16. Basavaraj Naikar's Kannada translations: a postcolonial reading/Mallikarjun Patil. 17. "Value Education: A Synonym to a Healthy Education System"--a postcolonial study/G.A. Ghanshyam and U.K. Shrivastava. 18. Nayantara Sahgal's lesser breeds: a postcolonial text/Shivputra Shivaraj Kanade. 19. Postmodern traits: Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh/Anju Bala Agrawal. 20. Uttering reality: Alexis Wright's Plains of Promise/Himadri Roy. 21. Perspectivising Indian Poetics in postcolonial context: a study in application of Rasa Theory/Ujjwal Jana. 22. Replacing language in the post-colonial space: a study of Rama Mehta's Inside the Haveli and Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day and Fasting, Feasting/Jaydeep Sarangi. 23. From the spiritual to the Material Hero: the development of the Puritan Character/Ana M. Perez Cabello. A select bibliography. Index. 
"Presentations of Postcolonialism: New Orientations is a collection of essays which sets out to open the possible limits of the postcolonialism as a literary/social discourse. Postcolonialism, moving beyond the paradigm of so-called critical practice, has come to represent a complex web of meaning produced through multiple strategies of reading and interpreting it. The present collection of critical essays represents myriad, interesting and insightful explorations on textuality and inter-texuality of the postcolonial discourse, its meaning in recent critical practice. The contributors have explored the subject referring to different genres in connection with their traditional and radical interpretation into consideration." (jacket)

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