Introduction
Part One: A Conversation on American and Indian Literature
Chapter One: Inspiration from the Banks of the Indus River: A Conversation with Nibir K. Ghosh, Robin Lindley
Part Two: American Poetry
Chapter Two: Invoking the Goddesses Within: Women’s Writing and Negotiations with Americanness, Sweta Antony
Chapter Three: Exploring ‘the only real elysium’* through Transcendental Voyages by Thoreau and Tagore, Nishamani Kar
Chapter Four: Seasons as Motifs in Louis Gluck Poetry, A. Karunaker and S. Shiv Shankar
Part Three: American Theatre
Chapter Five: Rape and Religion in the Psycho Traumatic Spaces of Adrienne Kennedy’s Protagonists, Sarada Thallam
Chapter Six: The Politics of AIDS and the Liberatory Millenarian Vision in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Arnab Ray
Part Four: American Fiction
Chapter Seven: Black Lives Matter: Relocating the select writings of Henry David Thoreau and Mark Twain, Mahjabeen Neshat Anjum
Chapter Eight: Problem of Human Education in Invisible Man: A Gambit of Soft-slavery, Dharamdas M. Shende
Chapter Nine: The Politics of Colour: White Opacity and Toni Morrison, Shruti Das
Chapter Ten: Liberation in “n*****r work” and Common Arts: An Eco-Womanistic study of The Color Purple, Kotti Sree Ramesh and D. Jyothirmai
Chapter Eleven: Mc Murphy and Chief Bromden as Forerunners of Counter Culture—A Study of Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, B. Gopal Rao and M. Sangeetha Rao
Chapter Twelve: Masks and Disguises: A Carnivalesque Study of Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theatre, Rama N. H. Alapati
Part Five: American Short Stories
Chapter Thirteen: Monstrous Discourses: Female Body Image and Gothic Subjectivity in Short Stories by Alice Walker, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Joyce Carol Oates, Srirupa Chatterjee and Nilanjana Ghosal
About the Contributors