Postcolonialism, a major critical discourse in the humanities, especially in literary studies, has been amply interrogated but needs further interrogation in respect of its potentialities and prejudices, privileges and paradoxes. Whereas it paves the way for globalization and postnationalism. It also leads to fierce contestation and controversy. It aims at the generation of non-dominative and non-coercive epistemology but is politicizes the works/texts and gets mired in the politics of power. Some eminent scholars from distant and different parts of the world make a serious endeavour to define, what has so far remained indefinable, post-colonialism and its various, contrarious dimensions, its extensions and limitations and its collateral and coterminous sites. The work would not lay any claim to its being definitive but it certainly offers seminal insights into some current raging questions about postcolonialism, its special affinity with fiction, feminism and quest for identity, ethnic and linguistic and issues of self, alterity and subalternism.
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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