Aspects of Contemporary Post/Colonial Literature

Contents: Preface. 1. Postcolonialism and fiction in English: some considerations/Sheobhushan Shukla and Anu Shukla. 2. From postcoloniality to globalization: the comprador-intellectual as the site of disciplinary negotiation/Saikat Majumdar. 3. The ethics of sexual limits: the English patient and the Ebony Tower/A. Clare Brandabur. 4. The Indian English framed narratives and story cycles/M.G. Hegde. 5. Aesthetics of subjectivity, ethics of \'otherness\': the fiction of Shashi Deshpande/Saikat Majumdar. 6. Mapping the postcolonial situation in Anita Desai\'s fasting, feasting/Farddina Hussain. 7. The migrant voice of Jhumpa Lahiri/Arundhati Chatterjee. 8. From Turbulence to tranquility: an insight into Malamud\'s the fixer/G. Bhuvaneswari. 9. Marginalized self and marginalized identity: breaking the silence in Tehmina Durrani\'s my Feudal Lord/Shabina Nishat Omar. 10. Relocated diaspora: ethnic negotiation in Monica Sone\'s Nisei daughter/Madhusmita Pati. 11. The final journey: Richard Wright\'s Haiku/Philip Zitowitz. 12. Bellow\'s quest for the true self/Anu Shukla. Index.

"Postcolonialism, a historio-political phenomenon born in the matrix of literary studies, is a highly problematic term and yet a major force in the academia even today. Decentring the Eurocentric subject it has released new energies and created new paradigms in the contemporary literature and theory. The present anthology, a fine and judicious mix of the old and established scholars and the new and upcoming ones, endeavours to reify them, not as a prisoner of theory but as an enlightened critic, in the works of some representative writers mostly fictionists belonging to the third world. That the present volume is a happy blend of sound critical wisdom and fresh revelatory insights can be realized only when one has gone through it from cover to cover." (jacket)