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A novel set in contemporary India, Amaltas Avenue focuses on a specific time and place in the lives of characters who share a common milieu and seem to drift through ordinary, humdrum lives which cross and intersect occasionally. The façade of complacence is, however, shattered as unexpected developments take place in the lives of these characters and their world undergoes radical upheavals that change the course of their later lives. What begins as a ...
Deepa Mehta is an acclaimed Indo-Canadian scriptwriter and film director. She challenges conservative social mores and attempts to rewrite history, representing her story instead of his. Mehta has been a controversial figure ever since 1998 when her film Fire was banned in India for its explicit portrayal of lesbianism. Her next film Earth spoke of the partition of India and how it affected the lives of women. With her third film water, Mehta again ran into ...
The present anthology puts together selected papers from the Melus-India international conference held at Hyderabad in January 2000. The theme of the conference was "Cross-Cultural Transactions: Representations of race, gender, and culture in multi-ethnic literatures of the U.S." The essays collected here cover a wide range of topics on related themes, from broad-based critical approaches to specific scrutiny of individual texts. The authors discussed ...
This book brings together scholarly papers from the 2005 Conference of MELUS-India (the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States). It focuses on important signposts in America across diverse spheres: literature, culture, popular arts, media, et al. the essays collected here are cross-disciplinary and engage in discussions across generic borders and conventional dividing lines. Exploring a wide spectrum of ...