Multicultural and Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature

Edited by Varun Gulati and Garima Dalal - Foreword by Shirley Samuels - Contributions by Rachel Bari; Guru Charan Behera; Mukta Borah; Sayan Dey; Golam Gaus Al-Quaderi; Aaleya Giri; Sonali Garg; Pooja Gupta; Melissa Helen; Anju Mehra; Geetanjali Multani; Sheikh Nahid Neazy; Arti Nirmal; Poonam Pahuja; Sarannya V. Pillai; Vipan Pal Singh; Fatima Syeda and Shalini Vohra

Women and the word marginalization have never remained oxymoronic – the cross-cultural texts and Engels interest on subjugation make a perfect recipe for this incongruity. Multicultural and Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature traces multifarious facets of marginalized literature across the world, giving a brilliant overview of the historical roots of multiculturalist and marginalized sections. The fourteen chapters relate key literary and cultural texts and cover a broad spectrum of historical, linguistic and theoretical issues. There are three sections in the book – section I has four chapters, dealing specifically theoretical constructions and representations. Section II consists of four chapters that offer varied spectrum of discourses on world literature, intersecting with the frameworks of literary theories. Section III comprises six chapters that explore the mind of dalits, subalterns, colonial women and gender issues of a variety of Indian English Writers and draw varied perspectives of it.

Lexington Books

Pages: 188 • Trim: 6¼ x 6¼

978-1-4985-4744-4 • Hardback • May 2017 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-4745-1 • eBook • May 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Modern / General, Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General, Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Postcolonialism

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Summary

Women and the word marginalization have never remained oxymoronic – the cross-cultural texts and Engels interest on subjugation make a perfect recipe for this incongruity. Multicultural and Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature traces multifarious facets of marginalized literature across the world, giving a brilliant overview of the historical roots of multiculturalist and marginalized sections. The fourteen chapters relate key literary and cultural texts and cover a broad spectrum of historical, linguistic and theoretical issues. There are three sections in the book – section I has four chapters, dealing specifically theoretical constructions and representations. Section II consists of four chapters that offer varied spectrum of discourses on world literature, intersecting with the frameworks of literary theories. Section III comprises six chapters that explore the mind of dalits, subalterns, colonial women and gender issues of a variety of Indian English Writers and draw varied perspectives of it.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 188 • Trim: 6¼ x 6¼

978-1-4985-4744-4 • Hardback • May 2017 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-4745-1 • eBook • May 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Modern / General, Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General, Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Postcolonialism

Author

Varun Gulati teaches Indian English literature, postcolonial literature, Shakespeare and twentieth-century American literature at the University of Delhi.

Garima Dalal teaches at the Linguistic Empowerment Cell of Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Shirley R. Samuels
Introduction
Varun Gulati and Garima Dalal
Section I
1. Scripting Cultural Codes: Woman and Cinema
Rachel Bari
1. De-linking Existence: From Dasein to Damne
Arti Nirmal and Sayan Dey
1. Displaced Denizens: A Socio-historical Reading of the Literature of Displacement from Assam
Mukuta Borah
1. Colonialism/Postcolonialism: A Multicultural South Asian Perspective
Vipan Pal Singh

Section II
1. Nation State and State of Nationlessness: Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient
Guru Charan Behera
1. Dynamics of Marginalized Female Voices in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s Weep Not Child
Geetanjali Multani
1. Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood: Linking Nature and Motherhood
Sarannya V Pillai
1. History in Expatriate Experience: The Sacred Burden borne in China Men and The Woman Warrior
Sonali Garg

Section III
1. Reading the Autobiography of Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke as a Community Biography
Melissa Helen
1. Fear of Pollution: A Study of Humiliation in Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
Fatima Syeda
1. Revisiting Class in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable: Postmodern Reflections
Golam Gaus Al-Quaderi and Sheikh Nahid Neazy
1. Locating Subaltern Voices in Anita Agnihotri’s The Awakening
Aaleya Giri and Anju Mehra
1. New Historicist Approach to Analyze the Novel: A Study of A Bend the Ganges
Pooja Gupta and Shalini Vohra
1. Scrutinizing Dark Stature of the Second Sex in Society: A Critique of Shashi Deshpande’s Selected Works
Poonam Pahuja

Reviews

Multicultural and Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature is a rich collection of essays on how literature has given voice to the unheard, the subaltern voices. The editors have taken pains to provide an insight into various cultures and the way they have tried to suppress and oppress theses voices.
— Mohammad Aslam, Central University of Kashmir

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