Contemporary Interrogations : Language and Literature/edited by Sunita
Agarwal. Jaipur, Book Enclave, 2008, xii, 364 p., ISBN
81-8152-211-5.
Contemporary Interrogations : Language and Literature/edited by Sunita
Agarwal. Jaipur, Book Enclave, 2008, xii, 364 p., ISBN
81-8152-211-5.
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. I. 1. Linguistic complexities and realization : a tribute to Rajul Bhargava/Bernice J.M. West and Michael H. Lyon. 2. English as 'Second Language' in India/Kapil Kapoor. 3. Imposition or native growth : the status of English language in India/S.D. Kapoor. 4. Globalizing English studies in India/Harish Narang. 5. Using effective English to meet the various communicative functions of business conversations/Meenakshi Raman. 6. Pedagogical implications in using multimedia language lab/Pushp Lata. 7. 'Linguistic Massacre': a cause for concern/Sanjay Arora. 8. Causes and remedies of weak English : a case study of Shekhawati area in Rajasthan/Sunita Jakhar. II. 9. Known realities, shifting epistemologies and the literary imagination/Jasbir Jain. 10. Knowledge, power and tribal knowledge systems/H.S. Chandalia. 11. Mahasweta Devi's Radali : voice of a voiceless community/Malti Agarwal. 12. Decoding gender in literary texts/Sukrita Paul Kumar. 13. Gender and nation: feminist interrogations of the discourse of the 'universal' in the poetry of Himani Bannerji and Imtiaz Dharker/Sudha Rai. 14. In pursuit of Indian model of feminism : a methodological note/Shrawan K. Sharma. 15. Kakar's interpretive theory of the Indian male ego/Supriya Agarwal. 16. Anita Desai : Fire on the mountain/Malashri Lal. 17. Exploring stereotypes: a study of Rajinder Singh Bedi's "Lajwanti" and Gulzar's "Dalia"/Nibir K. Ghosh. 18. Revisiting motherhood: janani by Rinki Bhattacharya/Sunita Agarwal. 19. From orality to narrative: representing the aesthetics of the arctic/Jameela Begum. 20. "Accept Me As I Am" : celebration of culture and identity in the poems of Rita Joe/Mini Nanda. 21. A long way from home : the art and protest of Taslima Nasrin/Deepa S.P. Mathur. 22. Translating silence: the limits of language in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide/Santosh Gupta. 23. Bifocal visioning of the self: Jhumpa Lahiri's cultural dialogics/Joya Chakravarty. 24. Continued from pg. 266... Shashi Tharoor's Riot/Mita Kapur. 25. Aesthetics of 'loss' in Kiran Desai's The inheritance of loss/Beena Agarwal. 26. Anesthetizing modernity: Hari Kunzru's the impressionist/Charu Mathur. 27. Interrogating the nation from modernist perspective: reviewing The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani/Nidhi Singh. 28. Exploring the urban reality : a view on Nissim Ezekiel's poetry/Shaila Mahan. 29. Urbanism: a great textual tradition in Indian English poetry/S.K. Agrawal. 30. Interrogating identity and location : the poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla/Tanuja Mathur. 31. Nobody gave Gary a valentine : Mailer's The Executioner's Song/Arun Soule. 32. Revisiting Jimmy Porter in the Binder's House/Sanjay Kumar.
"The book Contemporary Interrogations: Language and Literature, a collection of essays in the honour of Prof. Rajul Bhargava is concerned with various issues and problems related to literature and language. The book is divided into two sections. The first section is related to language which analyzes the need the role of English language in this era of rapid globalization and certain other issues pertaining to language. The second section is concerned with diverse literatures - post-colonial, feministic writing, women's writing, tribal, Dalit writing, etc. The book is an attempt to interrogate and explore some of the crucial junctures and co-junctures, issues and ideas, hypotheses and theories, texts and contexts in both language and literature.
The essays in this volume range from re-examining and re-evaluating theoretical positions, exploring and critiquing different genres of literary writings to analyzing of individual texts. Most of the essays included in this volume have interrogated and explored Indian English literature but a few of them are related to American, Canadian and British writers as well. The contributors have interrogated, questioned and proposed new paradigms and standards to evaluate and assess literary texts and study various critical concepts, ideas, forms and Several issues like these." (jacket)