Contemporary Interrogations: Language and Literature

The book Contemporary Interrogations: Language and Literature, a collection of essays in the honour of Prof. Rajul Bhargava is concerned with various issues and problems related to literature and language. The book is divided into two sections. The first section is related to language which analyzes the need the role of English language in this era of rapid globalization and certain other issues pertaining to language. The second section is concerned with diverse literatures – post-colonial, feministic writing, women’s writing, tribal, Dalit writing, etc. The book is an attempt to interrogate and explore some of the crucial junctures and co-junctures, issues and ideas, hypotheses and theories, texts and contexts in both language and literature. The essays in this volume range from re-examining and re-evaluating theoretical positions, exploring and critiquing different genres of literary writings to analyzing of individual texts. Most of the essays included in this volume have interrogated and explored Indian English literature but a few of them are related to American, Canadian and British writers as well. The contributors have interrogated, questioned and proposed new paradigms and standards to evaluate and assess literary texts and study various critical concepts, ideas, forms and Several issues like these.