This edited volume critically assesses different aspects of five literary genres – novels, poetry, short-stories, drama, and non-fictional prose – contributed to by the Indian diasporic writers settled principally in North America and Europe. Films made by or on members of the Indian diaspora have been also checked out. The predominant approach in the anthology is not only a feminist one, although special emphasis is given on assessing the writings by females.
The emphasis of the anthology is on: (a) critical analyses of themes, styles, diction, and relevance of the writings; (b) assessment of the research potentialities of these writings; (c) examining how literary theories could be used for explaining and assessing the writings; (d) proper contextualization of the writings; and (e) finding out the historical roots and suggesting the future ‘prospects’ of such writings.
The essays included in the book re-read Indian diasporic writings for their appreciable points as well as those which need development. The collection fills in lacuna of critical approaches to Indian diasporic writings presently available in the market. In fact, there is scarcely any book presently available that covers critical approaches to all the five literary genres of Indian diasporic writings.
Roy Pinaki
Dr. Pinaki Roy (born 1980) studied English at Visva-Bharati (Santiniketan, West Bengal, India) and University of North Bengal (Shibmandir, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India). Since 2019, he is Professor of English (and Dean of Students’ Welfare) at the RAIGANJ UNIVERSITY in Raiganj (West Bengal, India). His previous books include THE BROKEN PENS: THE (INDIAN) PARTITION IN LITERATURE AND FILMS (Aadi, 2015), WILFRED OWEN: THE MAN, THE SOLDIER, THE POET (Books Way, 2013), THE SCARLET CRITIQUE: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY OF WAR POETRY (Sarup, 2010), and THE MANICHEAN INVESTIGATORS: A POSTCOLONIAL AND CULTURAL REREADING OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES AND BYOMKESH BAKSHI STORIES (Sarup, 2008), and 3 others. His papers have been published by, among other outlets, CLUES, W.L.A., MUSE INDIA, ENGLISH FORUM, VISVA-BHARATI QUARTERLY, and YEARLY SHAKESPEARE.
Bashabi Fraser
Dr. Bashabi Fraser, C.B.E. is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University (Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.) and an internationally-recognised Indian Diasporic Poet.
Neha Arora
Neha Arora, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of English of the Central University of Rajasthan (in the district of Ajmer, Rajasthan). Her areas of interest include diasporic writings, Dalit-literature, comparative literature, Indian writings, and subaltern-studies. She has authored Dalit Literature Today (Creative Books, 2015), and has edited/co-edited three critical-anthologies – on New Literature, Mahesh Dattani’s plays, and marginalised literature. She has also contributed several research papers in reputed journals and edited volumes.
Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay
Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay, is the CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (ACADEMICS) of SWAMI VIVEKANANDA UNIVERSITY (Bara Kanthalia, Barrackpore, West Bengal, India). Previously he served as the VICE-CHANCELLOR of BANKURA UNIVERSITY (Bankura, West Bengal), and taught at the UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN as a PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH. He is the present SECRETARY of the INDIAN ASSIOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIA (EASTERN REGION). A theatre-enthusiast and critic, BANDYOPADHYAY’S(edited and solo-authored) publications include LANDSCAPE, PLACE AND CULTURE: LINKAGES BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND INDIA(Cambridge Scholars, 2011), BORDERS AND BORDER CROSSINGS: READING PARTITION, READING DIASPORA (University of Burdwan Press, 2016), ‘THE ASIAN CENTURY’: AUSTRALIA AND THE TRANS-ASIAN CULTURAL AND STRATEGIC DIPLOMACY(Aadi, 2016),TRANSNATIONAL SPACES OF INDIA AND AUSTRALIA (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and LAKSHMI’S FOOTPRINTS AND PAISLEY PATTERNS: PERSPECTIVES ON SCOTO-INDIAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL INTERRELATIONS (Routledge, 2023).
Indrajit Chattopadhyay
Indrajit Chattopadhyay, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English of Kabi Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Hooghly, West Bengal, India. Educated at the Universities of Calcutta and Kalyani, Chattopadhyay has been an academic-counsellor for Post-Graduate course of English Language and Literature of Indira Gandhi National Open University. His most recent publication is Of Woman Born: Changing Interpretations of Womanhood in Shakespearean Comedies (Signorina, 2020). His present areas of interest are diasporic literature, cultural studies, and hunting literature.
Lata Dubey
Lata Dubey, Ph.D., is professor in the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Her areas of interest include diasporic writings, British fiction, Victoria poetry, linguistics, contemporary fiction, Indian Literatures in English, feminism, contemporary theory, New Literatures in English, narratology. She has published more than two dozen research papers in different international and nationally-circulated journals, and has lectured at several conferences, seminars, and U.G.C.-H.R.D.C. Refresher Courses as resource person.
Tanima Dutta
Tanima Dutta, Ph.D., works as an assistant professor at the Department of English, Buniadpur Mahavidyalaya (Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal, India), and edits a reputed multidisciplinary journal, Exposure. An activist and a recognised performer, she has spoken at different international and national-level conferences and seminars, and has a number of critically-acclaimed research-publications to her credit. Her doctoral research thesis was highly-appreciated at the University of Heidelberg. Dutta is presently co-editing an anthology of critical writings on posthumanism, likely to be published from a reputed eastern U.S.A.-based publishing house.
Saptarshi, Mallick
Saptarshi Mallick, Ph.D., works as an assistant professor of English at Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, West Bengal, India (which is a constituent college of the University of North Bengal). In 2016-17 he has been a Charles Wallace India Trust (Doctoral) Fellow in the U.K. He was an Associate Staff (Research Fellow) at the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), Edinburgh Napier University, as part of the UKIERI Programme. He is an Ernst Mach Fellow 2019-20 (postdoctoral) at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria. He has been visiting faculty in the Summer Semester of 2020 at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. He is an Associate Editor of Gitanjali and Beyond, an international, open-access e-journal of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs).
Rupayan Mukherjee
Dr. Rupayan Mukherjee studied English Literature at Jadavpur University and University of North Bengal, India. Since 2017, he is lecturer of English at the University B.T. & Evening College in Cooch Behar, India. His previous books include Partition Literature and Cinema: A Critical Introduction (Routledge 2020). His papers have been published by, among other outlets, Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies.
Auritra Munshi
Auritra Munshi teaches in the Department of English at Raiganj University, India. His research areas include Diaspora studies and migration.
Saunak Samajdar
Saunak Samajdar, Ph.D., is an associate professor of the Department of English, Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India. A J.N.U.-alumnus, a movie-buff, and deeply interested in diasporic writings, Samajdar – who resides in Siliguri – is a ‘globetrotter’ by choice, and has spoken at numerous international and national-level conferences and seminars on areas like visual semiotics and literary and critical theories. His publications have been appreciated globally.
Soumyajit Samanta
Soumyajit Samanta, Ph.D., is a former professor of English of the University of North Bengal (in the district of Darjeeling, West Bengal, India). Educated at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, and Jadavpur University, Samanta’s publications include Lovescape Crucified: A Study of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Sarup and Sons, 2005) and James Joyce: A Study of his Novels, Poetry, and Plays (Atlantic Publishers, 2014). He had been to the University of Lund, Sweden, in 2008 and 2010 on fellowships.
Subhrajit Samanta
Subhrajit Samanta, M.A. – with degrees in both Mass Communication and English – has pursued adventurous and challenging news stories, covering a range of beats as a full-time general assignment reporter for The Statesman, Siliguri. His publications include Shakuntala and the Natural Sublime: Representations in Literature and Media (2019), Psychological Horror in ‘Red Dragon’ and ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (2022), and The Mystique of Tibetan Mysticism: An Analysis of Herge’s ‘Tintin in Tibet’ (2022).
Jaydip Sarkar
Dr. Jaydip Sarkar studied English Literature at University of North Bengal, India. Since 2015, he is Associate Professor of English at the University B.T. & Evening College in Cooch Behar, India. His previous books include A Handbook of Rhetoric and Prosody (Orient BlackSwan 2018), Partition Literature and Cinema: A Critical Introduction (Routledge 2020), Writing Difference: Nationalism, Identity and Literature (Atlantic 2013) and Unmasking Power: Subjectivity and Resistance in Indian Drama in English (Papyrus 2014). His papers have been published by, among other outlets, Symposium and Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies.
Amrit Sen
Amrit Sen, Ph.D., is a professor at the Department of English, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati (Santiniketan, West Bengal, India), and is, presently, the Director of Granthan Vibhaga (the publishing-section) of Visva-Bharati at Kolkata. A recipient of several awards and accolades, including those from the Government of India and the U.G.C., Sen has authored/co-authored 13 books till date, and has published numerous essays and articles in reputed international and national journals. He had been at the University of Edinburgh as Fellow of a UKIERI-programme, and travels all around the world, lecturing at different international conferences, and teaching at numerous universities. Indian diasporic writings, Rabindranath Tagore’s literature, and 18th century English literature are on the list of his research-interests.
Lalan Kishore Singh
Lalan Kishore Singh, Ph.D., is professor of English at Gauhati University, Assam, India. He has worked extensively on literary theory and criticism, history and historicism, and ecology and literature. He has also an abiding interest in studying diasporic writings, the historical intersections between historical experience, the Second World War, nationalism, and local cultures of Northeast India.
Neha Swarnakar
Neha Swarnakar, M.Phil, teaches English at Sripat Singh College (Jiaganj, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India), and researches at the Department of English, Raiganj University. She has completed her B.A. and M.A from Kalyani University. She has several articles, including those on diasporic writings, to her credit. Her area of interest encompasses resistance literature, new gender studies, and war-literature.
| Delivery time | Delivery time 2-3 working days. |
| Edited by | Roy Pinaki |
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| Introduction by | Bashabi Fraser |
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| Contributions by | Neha Arora , Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay , Indrajit Chattopadhyay , Lata Dubey , Tanima Dutta , Saptarshi, Mallick , Rupayan Mukherjee , Auritra Munshi , Saunak Samajdar , Soumyajit Samanta , Subhrajit Samanta , Jaydip Sarkar , Amrit Sen , Lalan Kishore Singh , Neha Swarnakar |
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| Number of Pages | 318 |
| Type | E-Book |
| Language | English |
| e-book DRM | Digital Rights Management - Watermark |
| Publication date | 28.02.2023 |
| E-book format | PDF |
| ISBN | 978-3-8382-7718-9 |
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"It is a much-needed volume bringing together the varied concepts of diaspora writings through the ages as well as in modern times." -- Nibedita Mukherjee, Professor of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsa University, Purulia, West Bengal, India
"A comprehensive survey of the important voices of Indian diasporic writers." -- Robert Masterson, Poet and Academician, B.M.C.C., City University of New York, New York, USA
"A timely tour d’ horizon of diasporic cultural practices, encompassing curries and cinema, poetry and drama, fiction and theory." -- Peter Paul Schnierer, Professor of English, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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