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Book SynopsisWomen and the word marginalization have never remained oxymoronic the cross-cultural texts and Engels interest on subjugation make a perfect recipe for this incongruity. Multiculturaland Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature traces multifarious facets of marginalized literature across the world, giving a brilliant overview of the historical roots of multiculturalist and marginalized sections. The fourteen chapters relate key literary and cultural texts and cover a broad spectrum of historical, linguistic and theoretical issues. There are three sections in the book section I has four chapters, dealing specifically theoretical constructions and representations. Section II consists of four chapters that offer varied spectrum of discourses on world literature, intersecting with the frameworks of literary theories. Section III comprises six chapters that explore the mind of dalits, subalterns, colonial women and gender issues of a variety of Indian English Writers and draw varied
Trade ReviewMulticultural and Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature is a rich collection of essays on how literature has given voice to the unheard, the subaltern voices. The editors have taken pains to provide an insight into various cultures and the way they have tried to suppress and oppress theses voices. -- Mohammad Aslam, Central University of Kashmir
Table of ContentsForeword Shirley R. Samuels Introduction Varun Gulati and Garima Dalal Section I 1Scripting Cultural Codes: Woman and Cinema Rachel Bari 2De-linking Existence: From Dasein to Damne Arti Nirmal and Sayan Dey 3Displaced Denizens: A Socio-historical Reading of the Literature of Displacement from Assam Mukuta Borah 4Colonialism/Postcolonialism: A Multicultural South Asian Perspective Vipan Pal Singh Section II 5Nation State and State of Nationlessness: Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient Guru Charan Behera 6Dynamics of Marginalized Female Voices in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s Weep Not Child Geetanjali Multani 7Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood: Linking Nature and Motherhood Sarannya V Pillai 8History in Expatriate Experience: The Sacred Burden borne in China Men and The Woman Warrior Sonali Garg Section III 9Reading the Autobiography of Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke as a Community Biography Melissa Helen 10Fear of Pollution: A Study of Humiliation in Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand Fatima Syeda 11Revisiting Class in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable: Postmodern Reflections Golam Gaus Al-Quaderi and Sheikh Nahid Neazy 12Locating Subaltern Voices in Anita Agnihotri’s The Awakening Aaleya Giri and Anju Mehra 13New Historicist Approach to Analyze the Novel: A Study of A Bend the Ganges Pooja Gupta and Shalini Vohra 14Scrutinizing Dark Stature of the Second Sex in Society: A Critique of Shashi Deshpande’s Selected Works Poonam Pahuja
