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This multi-genre collection of chapters presents the dramatic transformation of English Studies in India since the early 1990s. It showcases the shift from the study of mainly British literature and language to a more versatile terrain of multilingualism, culture, performance, theory, and the literary Global South. Tracing this transition, the volume discusses themes like Indian literary history, postcolonial theory, post-pandemic challenges to literary studies, the state of Indian English drama, vernacular literature in English Studies and pedagogy, translations of feminist writers from South Asia, caste, and othering in literature, among other key themes. The volume, with contributions from eminent English Studies scholars, not only reflects the altered terrain of English Language and Literature in India but also invites readers to think about the transformative potential of the present juncture for both literary imagination and literary studies.
This timely book, in honour of Professor GJV Prasad, will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English Studies, cultural studies, literature, comparative literature, translation studies, postcolonial studies, and critical theory.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
SUB-THEME I: LITERARY STUDIES IN INDIA
1 Rethinking and Resituating Histories of Indian Literature(s)
2 Coronavirus Spacesuits: Or, Hard Times as Launching Pads for Literary Travel
3 The Pandemic and the Postcolonial
4 From 'Commonwealth' to 'Global South': Engaging with African Literature in Indian Literary Studies
SUB-THEME II: DRAMA
5 The State of the Stage: An Interview with Mahesh Dattani
6 Performing the Dalit: A Reading of Dalit Plays
7 Interpreting Euripides's Medea in the Contemporary Indian Context
SUB-THEME III: POETRY
8 Poetry, Plague and Locusts: About Writing Sonnets on the Black Death
9 Translation and Variation: Literary Studies, Reading Practices, and the Vernacular
10 Of Dreamtime and Dream-tracks: Revisiting Australian Indigenous Identity Construction with Reference to Select Poems by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Kevin Gilbert
SUB-THEME IV: TRANSLATION AND TRANSCREATION
11 An Equal Music
12 Translation, Interpretation, and Transcreation: Texts and Contexts in the Indian Scenario
13 Translating South Asia: Women and Radical Textuality
SUB-THEME V: FICTION, LANGUAGE, AND CONTEXT
14 Are the Ghosts in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw Real?
15 Marginalization and Dispossession in the Kashmiri Novel: A Look at Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator
16 Calling Local/Talking Global: The Cosmopolitics of the Call-Centre Industry
17 An Emerging Literary Tradition: An Overview of Writings in English from the Northeast
