This Volume of essays is brought out in honour of Professor C.D. Narasimhaiah, an eminent scholar-critic and one of the pioneers of English Studies in India. Of its two sections the first interrogates several major concerns of contemporary critical discourse such as identity, diaspora, hybridity, decolonization. Cross-cultural encounters, translatorial practices and gender relations, locating them in an indigenous but eclectic and vibrant cultural ambience of the ...