Rural Livelihood and Food Security
Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgements. I. Hues of literature: 1. Imagining and imaging India: Random reflections on Field notes on Democracy: listening to grasshoppers/C.R. Visweswara Rao. 2. Theme of Loneliness in Vikram Seth’s The Golden Gate/S. Krishna Sarma. 3. Subaltern subjectivity and resistance: Dalit social history in post-colonial Indian fiction in English/Mittapalli Rajeshwar. 4. Fifty Turbulent Years of Independent India in Gita Mehta’s Snames and Ladders/J. Yellaiah and K.V. Ramana Chjary. 5. Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session: A conflict between innocence and Cruelty/P. Obula Reddy and Hussainvali Shaik. 6. Into the lap of eternity on the Ganga Ghat/B. Parvathi. 7. Social and sexual conflicts in Ismat Chughtai’s The Crooked Line/C.L.L. Jayaprada and D. Suvarna Suni. 8. The period of renaissance in Telugu literature/Madhuranthakam Narendra. 9. Yogic realism: the Indian story tradition/K. Suma Kirana. 10. History as fiction in Chaman Nahal’s The Triumph of the Tricolour/G. Chenna Reddy. 11. Mulkraj Anand’s untouchable: a reflection of Dalit consciousness/T. Pratap Reddy. 12. Interculturation in Bhabani Bhattacharya’s A Dream in Hawaii/R. Poli Reddy. 13. Race, class and gender as postcolonial constructs: the triple identity of African American women in Toni Morrison’s Sula/A. Hari Prasanna. 14. Black feminist consciousness: Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place/T. Jeevan Kumar. 15. Thomas Pynchon: the post modern novelist/G.V. Sudhakar. 16. The Ironic mode as a textural principle in T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock and Sweeney among The Nightingales/V. Gopal Reddy. 17. Margaret Drabble and women’s world/V.V.N. Rajendra Prasad and M. Durga Bhavani. 18. Othello: a feminist and post colonial reading/N. Ramadevi. 19. Antigone and Joan: individual versus institution/T. Viswanadha Rao. 20. The game of art and the game of life: a study of Luigi Pirandello/R. Saraswathi. 21. Identity, subjectivity and voice: a reading of Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe/C. Vijayasree. 22. Reconciliation an equipment for living: a study of Flora Nwapa’s fiction/K. Nirupa Rani and J. Lalitha Sridevi. 23. Post-colonial consciousness in V.S. Naipaul’s the The Mimic Men/V.R. Badiger. 24. K.S. Maniam: finding a center and appropriating Language in Malaysian context/N. Usha. 25. Dilemmas of the double hyphenated: Arnold Harrichand/Harrichand Itwaru’s Unreturning/B. Indira. II. Literary theory and English Language Teaching: 26. Dreams and their relations/K. Narayana Chandran. 27. Gaps and leaps: literary translation as a mediating means of inter/cross cultural and linguistic communication: a case study/Ch. A. Rajendra Prasad. 28. New historicism: a Greenblattian model/P. Suneetha. 29. Using authentic materials for instruction at secondary level in Government schools/G. Damodar and T. Sarath Babu. 30. Soft skills through Indian narrative tradition for curricular development/Sumita Roy. 31. Teaching English at higher level: a paradigm shift/P. Padma. 32. Conversation: a social skill/Y. Somalatha. 33. Teaching English using technology/V. Swarnalatha.
From the Foreword: The festschrift Critical Expressions, a volume of articles on English Language and literature, is a welcome contribution to English studies in general. The book comprises essays on literary theory, English Language teaching American Literature, British Literature, Commonwealth Literature, European Literature in Translation, Indian Literature in Translation and Indian writing in English. All the contributing authors, in their gleaming voices, have thrown fresh light on various topics of interest and offered critical insights and perceptive analyses. Though the articles incorporated in this volume do not confine to one area of English Literature much emphasis is laid on Indian writing in English. All the articles are explosive, incisive and insightful and add luster to the critical scholarship of the authors.
