Author: Prafulla C Kar
Kailash C Baral/Sura P Rath
Editor: Prafulla C Kar, Kailash C Baral & Sura P Rath
Publisher: Pencraft International
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 0
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185753555
Description
This volume of selected papers are organized around the topic of the discipline of English studies: its history, institutional context, transformation, and pedagogical and curricular imperatives.
This volume of selected papers from the Journal of Contemporary Thought of the Forum on Contemporary Theory of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda commemorates the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Journal (1991-2000). . As the discipline is situated within a complex context of intersections of several attitudes and ideologies involving the intricate processes of knowledge-formation in both colonial, and postcolonial settings, the essays included in the volume both address specific questions about English studies and board questions about the social and political ideologies determining the institution of the discipline and its ongoing debate regarding its curricular and pedagogical imperatives.
The volume will provide a useful resource to both literary scholars and scholars from the sister disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Contents
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Modernity and Post modernity
Columbus Runs Aground: Christmas Eve, 1492
Unmasking Colonial Linguistic Cultural Transaction-Whither?
Play in Culture: Football
Home's) Abroad: Diasporic Identities in Third Spaces
The Politics of Borrowing
Theories in Postmodern and Postcolonial Discourse and Theory
The Ideology of Literary Criticism:
The Case of Judgment, Transcendence and Clerisy
Self-Consuming Art and Facts (Why the Novel Splatters)
Feminism and/as Myth:
Feminist Literary Theory between Frye and Barthes
Global Intimacies in the Cultural Studies Classroom
Curriculum as Conversation
Curriculum wars:
Pragmatism as Truce
The Invisible Hand:
Structural Politics and the Undergraduate Curriculum
Break the Sentence, Then Break the Sequence: Lesbian Biomythographies
Postcolonial Theory:
A New Ontopology and Radical Politics
The World Beyond the Book:
Theory at the End of the Millennium
Criticism in Crisis: A Note on the Politics of Pedagogy
Where Are We Going from Here?
A Note on the Dilemmas and
Uncertainties of an English Teacher in an Indian University Today
Contributors
Index