Language, Literature, Culture and Cinema Essays in Honour of Professor Harish Narang

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Kapil Kapoor

Introduction

I. On Reading Bhasha Literatures

1. Some Fire, Some Dew: Reading the Poetry of Pash, Dil and Shiv

Rajesh Sharma

2. Doodhnath Singh's 'Mai Ka Shok Geet': An Intervention into the Formation of New India and its Lessons for Emancipatory National Liberation Discourses Today

Diamond Oberoi Vahali

3. Progressive Aesthetics and the Discourse of Modernity: A Close Reading of Premchand's 'Kafan' and 'Thakur ka Kuan'

Asmat Jahan

4. Poetry and Politics: Azad's Clarion Call

Mohammad Aslam

5. Rethinking Intellectual Responses to Colonial Education in India: Bhudeb Mukhopadhyaya — A Case Study

Saswata Bhattacharya

II. Constructing 'India' from the Margins

6. The Umbilical Nature-Human Connect: Reading the Sarhul Festival Narratives

Shreya Bhattacharji and Hare Krishna Kuiry

7. The Untouchable Goddess of Folklore: A Reading of Chandrasekhar Kambar's Karimayi

Shiv Kumar

8. Gender and/in Nation: Examining the Collective Agency of Women in (Imagining) Meitei Community

Leisangthem Gitarani Devi

9. Parsis of the Indian Subcontinent: A Close Study of Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat

Sadaf Fareed

10. Dalit Literature from Bengal: An Overview

Nandini Saha

11. Representation of Social Realities in Dalit Autobiographies

Prabuddh Ananda

III. On Reading Literature and the Allied Arts

12. The Choice of Language: Literary Production in a Minor Genre

Atanu Bhattacharya

13. Interrogating the Spatial Turn

Nilanjana Mukherjee

14. Whitening Voices and Black Lives Matter: A Raciolinguistic Enquiry

S. Imtiaz Hasnain, Sana Haider and Inzamul Sarkar

15. Digital Avatar of Colonial Hegemony and How to Count in Indian Language Texts

Arjun Ghosh

16. The Fall of Superstardom: OTTs Platforms and the Lockdown Malayalam Movies

Babitha Marina Justin

17. Partitioning Gender: Violence and Misgendering in Qissa: The Tale of a Legendary Ghost (2013)

Garima Yadav

IV. On Reading Literatures of the Indian Diaspora

18. Luggage or Lineage? Examining Memories and Migrant Communities in M.G. Vassanji's The Gunny Sack and The Book of Secrets

Anjum Khan

19. Dynamics of Religion and Rituals: Reading Select Travelogues of V.S. Naipaul and M.G. Vassanji

Vinod Kumar and Neelima Kanwar

20. A Trip Down the Memory Lane: A Sneak Peek into the Nostalgic Sentiments of Vassanji's Karsan Dargawala

Richa Sharma and Shrutimita Mehta

V. On Reading Literature in Comparative Terms

21. The Politics of Self-fashioning: A Comparative Study of Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen and Toni Morrison's Tar Baby

Chandrani Biswas

22. Marginal Voices and Othered Spaces: Short Stories by Bessie Head, Ama Ata Aidoo and M.M. Vinodini

Sumita Puri

23. Re-scripting a Feminine Landscape: The Poetry of Judith Wright and Kamala Das

Ranu Uniyal

VI. Black Sensibilities in Literature and Cinema

24. Politics and African Literature: A Narrative of Struggles, Identity and Change

Mukesh Ranjan

25. Performing Cultural Identities: Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests and Death and the King's Horseman

Sunita Murmu and Gourhari Behera

26. Towards Alternative Histories and Filmmaking: Postcolonialism and Feminist Thoughts in Sembene Ousmane's Xala, and Black Girl

Devapriya Sanyal

27. Exploring Identity, Gender and Empowerment in Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather

Madhumita Chakraborty

28. Derek Walcott and His Predilection with Names

Ajanta Dutt

29. To Manto with Love from Harish Narang, Nandita Das and Ketan Mehta

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

30. Literature as History of 'Mentalities': Reading Harish Narang's Sunte The Sahar Hogi

Jyoti Jakhar Dahiya

31. On the 'Writings' of Harish Narang...

Anuradha Ghosh

VIII. Reflections

32. Creative Writing is an Ethical Question (Literature, Politics, Commitment and Pedagogy in the Age of Globalization)

Harish Narang

33. In His Own Voice: An Interview with Professor Harish Narang

Nandini C. Sen

IX. Afterword

Language and Literature: A Language Teacher's Perspective

Vaishna Narang

Contributors

Biography

Madhumita Chakraborty is Professor in the Department of English, Zakir Hussain Delhi College (Evening), University of Delhi, India. Her areas of interest include African Literatures in English, Media and Popular Culture, and Diaspora.

Anuradha Ghosh is Professor in the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India. Her areas of interest include Literature, Cinema and the Allied Arts, Translation and Adaptation Studies, Literary Theory and Philosophy.

Mukesh Ranjan is Professor in the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India. His areas of interest include Poetry, Literary Criticism and Theory, African Literature in English, Translation Studies, Postcolonialism, Indian Poetics and Intellectual Traditions.

“This anthology in honour of Professor Narang is a storehouse of literary assertions. Neatly divided into nine sections, it is perhaps based largely on the areas of interest and expertise of Professor Narang himself. Within the ambit of Language, Literature, Culture and Cinema, added to which are the writing of Professor Narang and his interview, the book is indeed multidimensional in its scope and encompasses most of the debates in contemporary literature.

This book will be invaluable for not only research scholars of Language, Literature, Culture and Cinema but also for lay readers who wish to familiarise themselves with these issues. After having read the essays in this volume, one can appreciate the vast range of subjects they deal with.”

—   Manpreet Kaur Kang, Secretary, MELOW (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World), India.