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Author's travelogue to Europe.
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 ...
Moving pictures in the silent era and moving pictures with recorded sounds after 1927, has been used to tell stories, describe events, imitate human actions, expose problems, and urge reforms. It is not therefore surprising that such uses would provoke speculative comparisons with other major human systems for telling, describing, imitating, exposing and urging – verbal language. The twenty-two essays in this volume deal primarily with the interrelation of the ...
In the present day multicultural world, the issue of identifying an individual’s space becomes a topic of significant concern, particularly for an immigrant writer who is already burdened with issues of immigration, acculturation, and identity politics. The present anthology brings together selected paper from the 2003MELUS-Indian National Conference on "South Asian in the Untied States: The Diasporic Experience" and the 2004 International Conference ...