Migrant Voices in Literatures in English interrogates migrancy in literature and literary discourse especially in narratives and poetics. It endeavours to tease out the tangled yarn of migrancy and dispora and deeply probe various formulation arising from migrant consciousness and creativity, viz, home/land, cosmopolitanism/multiculturalism, borders, quest for identity, ethnicity, language and so on. Quite a few illustrious scholars and critics, from across the world, engage in this volume with the works/texts of the icons of migrant literature from various countries with a select emphasis on Indian writers in English. The book is intended to serve all those, whether academics, creative writers or researchers, who are interface with a most flourishing genealogy of contemporary world literature, and to lead to true literary globalisation.
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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