This volume includes essays on postcolonial literature, cross-cultural studies and multi-cultural scenarios as reflected in literature. It emphasizes, interestingly, the extent to which new literatures in English have altered/modified the canon of English literary studies thus allowing a larger space for it to be accommodated in general. Therefore, an attempt to suggest alternate reading of not only the postcolonial texts, but also those of the English and American canon has been encouraged. This volume includes essays on postcolonial literature, cross-cultural studies and multi-cultural scenarios as reflected in literature. It emphasizes, interestingly, the extent to which new literatures in English have altered/modified the canon of English literary studies thus allowing a larger space for it to be accommodated in general. Therefore, an attempt to suggest alternate reading of not only the postcolonial texts, but also those of the English and American canon has been encouraged.

This book is intended to enrich and enlarge the interrrogation of migrations, diasporic cultures, narratives, identities and literary constructions. The primary focus on the growth and development of contemporary literature will enhance the scope of the current debate on polyethnic and multi-cultural texts, which are currently being studied and discussed at national and international seminars all over the world.

The contributors to this volume include well-known scholars and writers such as Kamau Brathwaite, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, John Skinner, and Rohan Quince.

ABOUT THE EDITOR
K. T. Sunitha is currently Professor of English and Director, Centre for Women’s Studies in the University of Mysore, Mysore, India. She has published several articles in national and international journals and has traveled widely abroad in connection with literary assignments. She is also the recipient of Commonwealth Fellowship (U.K., 1983) and Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellowship (Toronto, 1992).

CATEGORY
Literary Criticism