American Studies in India
Contents: Acknowledgement. Preface. American studies: 1. American literature and American studies: an interdependence?/A. Mutalik Desai. Human rights: 2. Educating for alternative development: sharing knowledge about law: east-west context/A. Subbian. 3. International relations: 3. Present international scenario and diplomacy of engagement-a critical study/Thomas Edmunds. 4. Economics: 4. The economic sphere of America/Jesu Arul Christella. Sociology: 5. A study on the dissolution of marriage and its impact on children in the USA/A. Hepzibah. Catering: 6. Flavours of America/Charulatha Ravi. Tourism: 7. Tourism in the USA with special reference to Philadelphia: a great destination for all types of travelers and residents/E. Devabalane. Immigration: 8. History of American immigrants/B. Rajarajeswari Jayarani. Education: 9. Higher learning in the USA/Shantilin. Poetry: 10. The Rhetoric in Carl Sandburg’s poetry/Lily Arul Sharmila. 11. Art, lie and realization: a study of Elizabeth Bishop’s poems/Pradip Kumar Patra. 12. Poetry in its sources, body, soul and form: William Carlos Williams quest for form/Tanushree Nayak. Fiction: 13. Mark Twain’s Following the Equator: a perspective/S. Ramaswamy. 14. Problematisation of marriage as conflict between morality and existence in the select works of Henry James/S. Ganesan. 15. Translation of persecution into protest in the life of Richard Wright’s Bigger Thomas/ M. Regina Dorothy. Prose: 16. Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: a polemic for Wilderness//U. Sumathy. Biography: 17. Inner voice: self-situating in Maya Angelou’s autobiographies/P. Kamatchi. Drama: 18. Resisting racism: exceptional voices of women in the select plays of Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry/R. Kamini. 19. Edward Albeee’s dramatic vision/Sreelatha P. Pillai. 20. Theme of moral disintegration in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons/P. Ananthan. 21. Search for identity in Lorraine Hansberry’s a Raisin in the Sun/K. balachandran. Index.
American Studies in India is a very humble venture to present Indian responses to American Studies. Scholars of American Studies will prefer this collection because this is a multidisciplinary attempt on American studies, human rights, international relations, economics, sociology, catering, tourism, immigration, education, poetry, fiction, prose, biography and drama.
The book begins with a general article on American Studies. Human rights, international relations, economics, sociology, catering, tourism, immigration, education-these eight disciplines have been represented by 8 different research articles. Poetry of Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams have been preferred by three academics.
