Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity

Introduction - Srirupa Chatterjee; I. Postcolonial Identity Politics: Modernity and Poetry from South Asia; 1. Nativist Modernity in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra - Sarada Thallam; 2. Interrogating Identity Politics: A Reading of Jean Arasanayagam's Select Poems - Sharada Chigurupati; II. Indian Fiction and Postcolonial Modernity: The Twentieth Century and Beyond; 3. Girish Karnad's Ecomythological Sphere: A Structuralist Study of Hayavadana and The Fire and the Rain - Rekha Karim; 4. Anita Desai's Perspective on the Holocaust in Baumgartner's Bombay - Tiasa Bal and Gurumurthy Neelakantan; 5.Gendering Energy: Mobility and Feminist Modernities in Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe - Swaralipi Nandi; 6. Dalit Life Writing: Local Moorings, Global Contexts - Rohini Mokashi-Punekar and Himaxee Bordoloi; III. Cultural Modernity and Gender Politics in African and Arabic Literature; 7. Empowering Humanity through Feminism: Modernity and Sexual Politics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Writings - Aswathi Velayathikode Anand; 8. Incarcerated Lives, Thwarted Desires: Masculinity, Modernity, and the War in Midaq Alley - Shailendra Kumar Singh; IV. Modernity, Assimilatory Politics, and Trauma in Contemporary Australian Drama; 9. History, Memory, and Storytelling: Performing Trauma and 'Stolen Generation' Narratives in Jane Harrison's Stolen and Wesley Enoch and Mailman's The 7 Stages of Grieving - Sibendu Chakraborty; V. Britain, Political Modernity, and Literary Responses; 10. Utopia vs Dystopia: A Carnivalesque Study of William Golding's Lord of the Flies - Rama N. H. Alapati; 11. Negotiating traumatic memories of migration in Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills - Rima Bhattacharya; 12. The Postface of History and the Posthumous Society: Aesthetic Terrorism and the Post-ideological Condition in Sarah Kane's Blasted and Cleansed - Arnab Ray; VI. Cultural Modernity and Voices of Resistance in Caribbean Literature; 13. From Space to A Small Place: An Ecocritical Study of Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place - Kotti Sree Ramesh; 14. Subverting Cultures of Toxic Masculinity: Father Figures and Caribbean Gender Norms in the Novels of Elizabeth Acevedo - Vinita Vincent; VII. From Postwar Christianity to Millennial Postsecularism : Spiritual Modernity and North America; 15. From Controversy to Credibility: Counterculture Modernities in John Updike's Couples - Srirupa Chatterjee and Swathi Krishna S.;16. Exploring the Postsecular: The Modern Self, Community and Connectedness in E. L. Doctorow's City of God and Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men - Nilanjana Ghosal; 17. Redeeming Cloistered Womanhood: Spiritual Modernity in Mary Gordon's Pearl and There Your Heart Lies - Srirupa Chatterjee and Aswathi Velayathikode Anand; Conclusion; Index