Postcolonialism, a historio-political phenomenon born in the matrix of literary studies, is a highly problematic term and yet a major force in the academia even today. Decentring the Eurocentric subject it has released new energies and created new paradigms in the contemporary literature and Theory. The present anthology, a fine and judicious mix of the old and established scholars and the new and upcoming ones, endeavors to reify them, not as a prisoner of theory but as an enlightened critic, in the works of some representative writers mostly fictionists belonging to the third world. That the present volume is a happy blend of sound critical wisdom and fresh revelatory insights can be realized only when one has gone through it from cover to cover.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anu Shukla
Secretary of World Conference of Contemporary Literature is a gold medallist in M.A. English. She got her D.Phil degree on Saul Bellow from Allahabad University, Allahabad. At present she is senior lecturer in English at CMP College of Allahabad University, Allahabad. She has published a number of research papers on American fiction and Indian novel written in English and has edited a couple of critical anthologies on contemporary literature. Her areas of interests are American fiction, Indian novel written in English and narratology. She is editor of the officials journals of(IASCL Studies in contemporary literature.)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sheobhushan Shukla
Sheobhushan (S.B.) Shukla, is a former Prof. and Head. Department of English, Allahabad University, Allahabad, is presently president of world conferences on contemporary literature and Indian Association for studies in contemporary literature. A former editor of Agra University Journal of English studies and Uttar Pradesh studies in English and former member of the board of editors of the Indian Journals of English Studies, he is now engaged in editing studies in contemporary Literature in editing studies in contemporary literature and the books being published by IASCL. He is a 1989 fellow of School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, Hanover, (USA). He was president of Allahabad University Teachers Association from 1994 to 1997. He has published a number of books and several research papers. His doctoral thesis: Social and Moral Ideas in the Plays of Galsworthy†was published from Salzburg, Austria.
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