1st Edition
Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity Critical Perspectives from India
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Srirupa Chatterjee
I. Postcolonial Identity Politics: Modernity and Poetry from South Asia
1. Nativist Modernity in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra
Sarada Thallam
2. Interrogating Identity Politics: A Reading of Jean Arasanayagam’s Select Poems
Sharada Chigurupati
II. Indian Fiction and Postcolonial Modernity: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
3. Girish Karnad’s Eco-Mythological Sphere: A Structuralist Study of Hayavadana and The Fire and the Rain
Rekha Karim
4. When Holocaust Meets Indian Partition: Anita Desai’s Critique of Genocidal Violence in Baumgartner’s Bombay
Tiasa Bal and Gurumurthy Neelakantan
5. Gendering Energy: Mobility and Feminist Modernities in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe
Swaralipi Nandi
6. Dalit Life Writing: Local Moorings, Global Contexts
Rohini Mokashi-Punekar and Himaxee Bordoloi
III. Cultural Modernity and Gender Politics in African and Arabic Literature
7. Empowering Humanity through Feminism: Modernity and Sexual Politics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Writings
Aswathi Velayathikode Anand
8. Incarcerated Lives, Thwarted Desires: Masculinity, Modernity, and the War in Midaq Alley
Shailendra Kumar Singh
IV. Modernity, Assimilatory Politics, and Trauma in Contemporary Australian Drama
9. History, Memory, and Storytelling: Performing Trauma and 'Stolen Generation' Narratives in Jane Harrison's Stolen and Wesley Enoch and Mailman's The Seven Stages of Grieving
Sibendu Chakraborty
V. Britain, Political Modernity, and Literary Responses
10. Utopia vs. Dystopia: A Carnivalesque Study of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
Rama N. H. Alapati
11. Negotiating Memories of Trauma in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills
Rima Bhattacharya
12. The Postface of History and the Posthumous Society: Aesthetic Terrorism and the Post-ideological Condition in Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Cleansed
Arnab Ray
VI. Cultural Modernity and Voices of Resistance in Caribbean Literature
13. From Space to A Small Place: An Ecocritical Study of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place
Kotti Sree Ramesh
14. "Still, She Refused to be Tragic": Subverting Cultures of Toxic Masculinity in the Novels of Elizabeth Acevedo
Vinita Vincent
VII. From Postwar Christianity to Millennial Postsecularism : Spiritual Modernity and North America
15. From Controversy to Credibility: Counterculture Modernities in John Updike’s Couples
Srirupa Chatterjee and Swathi Krishna S.
16. Exploring the Postsecular: The Modern Self, Community and Connectedness in E. L. Doctorow’s City of God and Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men
Nilanjana Ghosal
17. Redeeming Cloistered Womanhood: Spiritual Modernity in Mary Gordon’s Pearl and There Your Heart Lies
Srirupa Chatterjee and Aswathi Velayathikode Anand
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Srirupa Chatterjee is Associate Professor of English, Gender Studies, and Body Image Studies in the Department of Liberal Arts at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.. Her books include edited volumes titled Female Body Image in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture (2024) and Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India (2023).
Sharada Chigurupati is Professor at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. She has published research articles in national and international journals. She is the lead editor of American Literary Studies in Post Millennial India: Critical Perspectives (2023).
