Contents: 1. Introduction/Raja Sekhar Patteti. 2. Can the Dalit speak?: Fluctuating subjectivity and fragmented postcolonial identity/Raja Sekhar Patteti. 3. Genre and its excess in marginal narratives/Azagarasan. 4. Restoring aboriginal/tribal cultures: a comparative study of Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen and Narayan's Ooralikkudy/M. Dasan. 5. From scene to scenario: expatriate writer's journey/P. Shailaja. 6. Canadian first nation writings and theory: a native cosmopolitan perspective/S. Armstrong. 7. Transcultural dialogue: E.M. Forster and Nirad C. Chaudhuri/T. Narayana. 8. A postcolonial reading of Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing/N. Suresh Chandra Rao. 9. Overlapping territories: the politics and poetics of Hybridization in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things/P.P. Ajay Kumar. 10. Violence within and violence without in David Davidar's The House of Blue Mangoes/C.L.L. Jayaprada. 11. Stanislaw Baranczak's Translations: an overview/K. Sandhya. 12. Deconstructive theatre: perspectives in Mahasweta Devi's Plays/N. Srinivasa Rao. 13. Colonialism as myth: a study of Chaman Nahal's The Crown and the Loincloth/Channareddy. 14. A comparative analysis of mysticism in the works of Rabindranath Tagore and Paulo Coelho/Subha Gora. 15. Language hybridism in the postcolonial space: a study of Rama Mehta's Inside the Haveli, Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day and Fasting, Feasting/Jaydeep Sarangi. 16. Multi-ethnic polytropic identity in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient/John Richard. 17. New Paradigms of Indian writing in postcolonial literature: a survey/S.D. Sasi Kiran. 18. Mysticism in Wordsworth and Tagore/S. Kanakaraj. 19. Teresa Hubel's Whose India? Deconstructing the property of the imagination/Pankaj Kumar. 20. Humanity of the rich towards poor in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath/M. Mani Kumar. 21. End of gaming or game of ending--the major issue in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?/R. Saraswathi. 22. Post-humanism in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable/Satuluri Das.
"Explicating the meaning of the word 'subaltern', the present volume offers a theoretical framework which encompasses various postcolonial literatures and a wide range of literary topics. It takes up important issues like postcolonial identity, multiethnic identity, relationship between literature and culture, transcultural dialogue, diaspora and indigenous writing, with reference to writers as varied as Rabindranath Tagore and Paulo Coelho, E.M. Forster and Nirad Chaudhuri, Arundhati Roy and Michael Ondaatje, William Wordsworth and John Steinbeck. The volume makes a rich contribution to the fields of subaltern studies, comparative literature and contemporary postcolonial theory." (jacket)
