Postcolonial Literature in the New Millennium: Philosophy, Politics, and Aesthetics features 16 essays written by scholars who explore the multivalent offshoot of postcolonial literature in the first quarter of the 21st century. The texts and contexts taken up in different essays engage with the contemporary realities of countries and regions that were once a part of the Commonwealth and have now evolved as independent national, political, and cultural entities while resisting colonialism and reconstructing new identities at the same time. If deliberations on nation, home, displacement, and migration represent the consciousness of communities inflicted with a sense of loss and trauma, the advent of health humanities, graphic novels, cinema, and digital humanities intersect with the advancement on the wave of modernity. Since the progress of such societies is concomitant with the rise of discourses from the margin, there are essays on the subtle nuances of Dalit, gender, and tribal identities. Environmental crises along with pandemics, an inevitable outcome of the technology-driven progress, and their impact on indigenous communities have been the core concern of some essayists, while a few have speculated about eco-futurism and post-humanism. This anthology of critical writings with its kaleidoscopic range encompassing recent scholarships will be quite handy for academicians and researchers interested in this area.
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.
Ashish Kumar Pathak
Ashish Kumar Pathak (b.1985) studied at the University of Allahabad and distinguished as Gold Medalist in English. Having obtained the degree of D. Phil. on T. S. Eliot, he is currently teaching as Assistant professor in the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P. India. Previously he taught at Central University of South Bihar. Patna University and Vasanta College for Women, Rajghat, Varanasi. Dr Pathak is author of the book T. S. Eliot’s Later Phase: A Study of Poetry, Drama and Criticism (Luminous Books, 2017) along with publishing research articles and chapters in national and internation journals and anthologies. His translation work has been published from the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (2023).
Saugata Dr Bhaduri
Prof Dr Saugata Bhaduri teaches at the Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
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.
Atanu Bhattacharya
Hitesh D Raviya
Indranil Acharya
Krishna Manavalli
Niladri R Chatterjee
Nigamanand Das
Raj Kumar
Rosy Chamling
Sandhya Tiwari
Nibedita Mukherjee
Shivaji Sargar
Shilpa Das
Tanu Gupta
Sathyaraj Venkatesan
Vivek Sachdeva
| Delivery time | Delivery time 2-3 working days. |
| Edited by | Lata Dubey , Ashish Kumar Pathak |
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| Foreword by | Saugata Dr Bhaduri |
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| Contributions by | Amrit Sen , Atanu Bhattacharya , Hitesh D Raviya , Indranil Acharya , Krishna Manavalli , Niladri R Chatterjee , Nigamanand Das , Raj Kumar , Rosy Chamling , Sandhya Tiwari , Nibedita Mukherjee , Shivaji Sargar , Shilpa Das , Tanu Gupta , Sathyaraj Venkatesan , Vivek Sachdeva |
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| Number of Pages | 352 |
| Type | Paperback |
| Publication date | 01.07.2025 |
| Language | English |
| Format | 210,0 mm x 148,0 mm |
| ISBN | 978-3-8382-2001-7 |
| Weight | 480 g |
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“Postcolonial studies is perhaps the most dynamic field of work in the humanities and social sciences today. This new collection, edited by Professors Dubey and Pathak, brings together a dozen contributors with diverse backgrounds and interests to explore some of the important but under-researched areas in this constantly changing domain.”
— Prof Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut, USA, author of What is Colonialism? (Routledge 2023)
“In this exciting and important new collection, editors Lata Dubey and Ashish Kumar Pathak weave together a tapestry that surfaces the agentive consciousness of postcolonial lived experiences, identity formation and self-making in non-English post-colonial societies. Offering new insights into the processes and challenges of decoloniality, the essays navigate challenges of ecologically sustainable lives, queer empowerment, emergent cuisines, new masculinities, Indigenous regimes of health and illness, intersectionality of disability, class, caste, gender and nation viewed through the lens of literature, cinema and digital media. This is a hopeful volume, a testament to the human creative spirit seeking liberatory lifeways amidst persistent neocolonial and neoliberal regimes.”
— Diana J Fox, Bridgewater State University
Edited by Professor Lata Dubey and Professor Ashish Kumar Pathak, Postcolonial Literature in the New Millennium: Philosophy, Politics and Aesthetics is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of essays that changes the parameters of what “commonwealth literature” is, or is thought to be. It is an exciting cross section of contemporary essays which bridge the gap between the theoretical and the literary, between East and West, and between nations, tribes, ethnic groups, and literatures. No other book provides such a wealth of primary and secondary source, bibliographic material, and such a diversity of approaches. Bearing on the topic of philosophy, politics, aesthetics, this book is definitely an important contribution to the studies of postcolonial literatures, commonwealth literatures, new literatures, diaspora literatures, gender literatures, environmental literatures, pandemic literatures, and digital humanities, all in the plural form.
—Tsu-Chung Su, Professor, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University
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