Perspectives on American Studies

Contents: Preface. I. International relations: 1. Indo-US strategic partnership in the twenty-first century/Mirza Asmer Beg. 2. Indo-US relations: the emerging trends/K.C. Sreekumar. 3. Indo-US relations: an era of maturity and understanding/A. Thanikodi. 4. The Clinton Administration: a new era of Indo-US relations/K. Balasundram. 5. Visits of heads of government: impact on Indo-US relations/G. Ravichandra Babu. 6. Iraq: the US agenda/D. Ananda Naidu. 7. US military intervention in Iraq: Indian response/D. Purushothaman. 8. Saddam and then.../Jayaprakash Mavinakuli. 9. The Middle East crisis with special reference to Iraq and Jerusalem/S. Zubaida Hussaini. 10. International terrorism: the hidden realities that the US has to realize/R. Rajeevan. 11. US approach to peace and stability in South Asia after September 11/C. Vinodan. 12. United States\' involvement in South Asia in the Post-Cold War era/K. Manikandan. 13. American Diplomatic intervention and strategies in tension reduction in South Asia: a Post-December thirteenth phase/A. Basheer. II. Politics: 14. Globalization and emerging crisis in social security: a glimpse of the US scenario/P. Krishna Kumar. 15. Globalization and its contradictions/D. Pradeep. 16. A comparative study of rural local self governments in India and America/Y. Gurappa Naidu. 17. The Jeffersonian touch to government and society/B. Narasingaraja Naidu. 18. Montgomery Satyagraha/R. Kuppusamy. 19. Empowerment through employment: a comparative study between Indian and American women/Zeenat Kausar Kardigud. III. Jurisprudence: 20. Prisoner on prisoner rape: the unadjudicated death sentence in America/K.C. Mohanakumar. 21. Sexual harassment jurisprudence under the American and Indian legal systems/K.C. Mohanakumar. 22. Women\'s human rights and the role of USA: a contemporary review/Prema Kasturi. IV. Literature: 23. Critical pedagogy and teaching of American Literature in India/Kailash C. Baral. 24. A Winnicottian Psychoanalytic Study of Kurt Vonnegut\'s fiction/Arindham Chatterjee. 25. American literary studies in India: a case for an interdisciplinary approach/A. Sebastian D. Pillai. 26. Notes on Gardner\'s theory of literature/Thummapudi Bharathi. 27. August Wilson\'s the piano lesson: the African American\'s American past/G. Muraleedharan. 28. IMAGISM: a postmodern critique of the "WE" in Hemingway\'s - A Farewell to Arms/Felix Moses. 29. Harlem renaissance revisited/C. Das. 30. Jewish American Diaspora in Malamud\'s The Assistant/G.J. Sathiaseelan. 31. Religion, a panacea for terrorism: a study of Countee Cullen\'s poetry/M. Anbanandam. 32. Mixed blood angst: the Dilemma of the Native American an analysis of the novels of N. Scott Momaday/Nafeesa Fathima Moinuddin. V. Commerce/Health/Environment/Library science: 33. Hospitality industry in India and USA: some reflections/B. Vijayakumar. 34. Marketing soft power softly: building bridges through brands/Uma Chandrasekaran. 35. A sustainable biosphere initiative: an American endeavour for conservation of nature/J. Jayasree. 36. Energy crisis: how America faces it?/C.R. Kala Kumari. 37. Global warming: the American Policy/C.R. Kala Kumari. 38. Environment and literature: American and Indian Aesthetic Praxis/A. Sebastian D. Pillai. 39. Twain\'s Mississippi and Vegad\'s Narmada: a comparative study/Samta Naidu and Apara Tiwari. 40. Thoreau\'s Walden: a monograph on ecology/Thummapudi Bharathi. 41. Growth of Ayurvedic view of life in the United States/G. Hemachandran Nair. 42. Information sources on internet in American studies/D. Chandran. 

"What is termed as "American" can be loved or hated accepted or rejected but can never be ignored. That is precisely why the magnitude of American studies has increased tremendously from an interdisciplinary study to a more serious intellectual pursuit aimed at unravelling the ideas, institutions, values and behaviour that determine the destiny of mankind. 

This is an anthology of research papers on American Studies presented in various national seminars and workshops organized by the South India American Studies Network at different canters of South India since 2004." (jacket)