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This volume of selected papers from the Journal of Contemporary Thought of the Forum on Contemporary Theory of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda commemorates the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Journal (1991-2000). The papers are organized around the topic of the discipline of English studies: its history, institutional context, transformation, and pedagogical and curricular imperatives. As the discipline is situated within a complex context ...
Sitakant Mahapatra’s position as a postmodern Indian writer needs no introduction. However, the directions his poetry and prose have taken in response to the complex postmodern condition in India have yet to receive a sustained critical assessment. In the Indian experience, modernism had a shape and color different from those in Europe and color different from those in Europe and the United States, its impact tempered both by the softer and slower landing of ...
This volume of twenty-two essays is prepared to honour Professor Prafulla C Kar on the occasion of his retirement from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda after about four decades of an illustrious career in the profession. The essays appear in five clusters: the first two essays lay the foundation for reflections on the correspondence between the past and the present and its implications for the future of literary studies; the next four spatially ...
Samskara: A Critical Reader is the first volume of its kind to be published on one of the classics of Indian literatures. It includes two foundation essays by anantha Murthy, one on Indian fiction and the other on how he wrote Samskara, offering a historical context to the volume. Other essyas, besides tracing the novel’s rotos to the tradition of realism in Indian fiction, address textual issues such as the representations of colonial modernity, thematic ...
This book on new globalism offers revisionist readings of a post-postcolonial world where nations and nationalities engage in conversation even in periods of open of covert conflict. The essays collected in this volume take a post-Orientalist, post-nationalist, and post-historicist approach to a historically colonial issue: cultural encounters between nations and nationalities. Traditionally, the issue is framed as a conflict between the native forces o ...