Author: Harish Trivedi
Meenakshi Mukherjee/
Publisher: Indian Institute Of Advanced Study
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 252
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185952825
Description
In this book, the nomenclature, nature, ideology, scope and applicability of 'post colonialism' are interrogated in their many aspects and from a wide variety of approaches.
These essays were first presented at an international conference organized in 1994 by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies with, and at, the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
The first ten essays address several theoretical and general issues relating to post-colonialism while the following ten essays examine post-colonialism with specific reference to Indian texts and contexts. Among the issues discussed are dominance, resistance, writing back', nation, history, migrancy, diaspora, language, location, gender and nativism.
THE AUTHORS:
HARISH TRIVEDI is Professor of English at the University of Delhi. He is the author of 'Colonial Transactions: English literature and India, and has edited volumes of critical essays on The American Political Novel, Jane Austen, and Indian Literature in the Twentieth Century.
MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE retired as a Professor of English at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the author of The Twice Born Fiction: Themes and Techniques of the Indian Novel in English, Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India and Jane Austen.