Literary Polyrhythms: New Voices in New Writings in English

This anthology of critical/research papers addresses a wide range of subjects/issues quite relevant to the English major students of all levels studying New Writings in English in the Eastern/Western universities. Participating in the ongoing debate of using the recent theories to the application and understanding of literary texts, they provide a useful resource to both researchers and literary scholar with the objective of enriching their response to and appreciating the eighteen or so different texts covering the geo-political regions of India, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean Islands, and New Zealand. This text in reality is a comprehensive survey of the most important literary texts published in the fourth quarter of the twentieth century and later, willingly prescribed and hotly debated in the academic circles. It offers scholars and other readers a variety of ways to interpret literary texts, ranging from conventional approaches through cultural studies into feminist criticism, postcolonial criticism and postmodern criticism.