American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India

Critical Perspectives

Sharada Chigurupati, Nageswara Rao Konda

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798881880989
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Asian Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India: Critical Perspectives is a collection of critical essays on Contemporary American Literature. This book is a classic and unique collection of critical essays on various topics such as Americanness, American Dream, Transcendentalism, Counterculture, Gay culture, Post Communism, Race, Class, Gender in American Literature, African American literature, Jewish American literature, and comparative study between Indian and American Literature. The essays cut across the various genres of poetry, theatre, fiction and short stories. This book is the first of its kind, as all the collection of essays have been written by eminent professors across India, Fulbright Fellows, and serious research scholars of high repute who have contributed remarkably to American Studies both in India and across the globe.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: A Conversation on American and Indian Literature
• Chapter 1: Inspiration from the Banks of the Indus River: A Conversation with Nibir K. Ghosh
• Part II: American Poetry
• Chapter 2: Invoking the Goddesses Within: Women’s Writing and Negotiations with Americanness
• Chapter 3: Exploring “the Only Real Elysium” through Transcendental Voyages by Thoreau and Tagore
• Chapter 4: Seasons as Motifs in Louise Glück’s Poems
• Part III: American Theater
• Chapter 5: Rape and Religion in the Psycho-traumatic Spaces of Adrienne Kennedy’s Protagonists
• Chapter 6: The Politics of AIDS and the Liberatory Millenarian Vision in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
• Part IV: American Fiction
• Chapter 7: Black Lives Matter: Relocating the Select Writings of Henry David Thoreau and Mark Twain
• Chapter 8: Problem of Human Education in Invisible Man: A Gambit of Soft-slavery
• Chapter 9: The Politics of Color: White Opacity and Toni Morrison
• Chapter 10: Liberation in “n*****r work1” and Common Arts: An Eco-womanistic Study of The Color Purple
• Chapter 11: McMurphy and Chief Bromden as Forerunners of Counter Culture: A Study of Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Chapter 12: Masks and Disguises: A Carnivalesque Study of Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater
• Part V: American Short Stories
• Chapter 13: Monstrous Discourses: Female Body Image and Gothic Subjectivity in Short Stories by Alice Walker, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Joyce Carol Oates
• Index
• About the Contributors