This volume of selected papers from the Journal of Contemporary Thought of the Forum on Contemporary Theory of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda commemorates the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Journal (1991-2000). The papers are organized around the topic of the discipline of English studies: its history, institutional context, transformation, and pedagogical and curricular imperatives. As the discipline is situated within a complex context of intersections of several attitudes and ideologies involving the intricate processes of knowledge-formation in both colonial and postcolonial settings, the essays included in the volume both address specific questions about English studies and broad questions about the social and political ideologies determining the institution of the discipline and its ongoing debate regarding its curricular and pedagogical imperatives. The volume will provide a useful resource to both literary scholars and scholars from the sister disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kailash C. Baral
Kailash C. Baral is Director, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, North-East Campus at Shillong. He is the author of the book Freud’s Theory of Arts and Literature (1994) and has edited two books, Humanities and Pedagogy: Teaching of Humanities Today (2002) and Interpretation of Texts: Text, Meaning and Interpretation (2002). He has also co-edited the book Theory and Praxis: Curriculum, Culture and English Studies (2003), and has published papers on Indian English literature, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial criticism.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Prafulla C. Kar
Prafulla C. Kar is one of the founder editors of the Journal of Contemporary Thought, Baroda. He was until recently Professor of English at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He was also Deputy Director of the American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad during 1982-86. He was a Fellow at the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College, USA in 1986. Besides editing several scholarly books, he has published papers on American literature, critical theories and new literatures in English.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sura P. Rath
Sura P Rath is currently a professor of English and Director of the William O. Douglas Honors College at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, USA. He has edited Flannery O’connor: New Perspectives (Uniersity of Georgia Press, 1996; with Mary Ann Shaw), Sitakant Mahapatra: The Mythographer of Time (2001), and Theory and Praxis: Curriculum, Culture and English Studies (Pencraft, 2003; with Kar and Baral). His articles have appeared in journals in India, Europe, and the United States. He is at work on a critical study of V.S. Naipaul.
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