Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama: Changing Canons and Responses [1 ed.] 1527533220, 9781527533226

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Table of Contents
Introduction-Mapping the Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama: New Directions and Challenges • Arnab Kumar Sinha, Sajalkumar Bhattacharya and Hirnadii Lahiri
I: Contemporary Indian English Poetry
Changing Canons: Some Reflections
The Empirical Eye of the Modernist: Studying Some Modem Indian Poetry in English • AjayKumar
Representation of the Nation and the Diaspora
“My Piecemeal Shelters” — Exploring the Diasporic Woman’s Voice in Selected Poems of Meena Alexander • Sajalkumar Bhattacharya
Agha Shahid Ali and the Thematic Transition in Kashmiri Poetry • Mousirn Mondal
Early Sikh Immigrants in America: A Study of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “Yuba City Poems” • Gargi Dutta
The In-between Worlds in the Narrative Called Nation: An Analysis of the Depiction of Nation in Indian English Poetry • Swetha Antony
Representation from the North East
Literature in English from the Northeast: A Critical Survey of Poetry from the Imagined Periphery • Mridul Bordoloi
Stones and Ao-Naga Culture: A Geographical Reading of Temsula Ao’s Stone-Poems • Sayantan Chakraborty
Gender Perspectives
Negotiating the Others as/in the Selves: Liminal Subjectivities in Post-Independence Indian English Poetry by Women • Amab Bhattacharya
Problematics of Representation of Women in Jayanta Mahapatra’s Poetry • Sandipan Ray Choudhury
II: Contemporary Indian English Drama
Changing Canons: Some Reflections
Re-drawing Boundaries of the Canon: Indian English Women Dramatists • Ainta Singh
Contesting Issues in Indian English Drama • Dipendu Das
Towards Syncretism: Resisting Critical Stereotypes in the Study of Contemporary Indian English Drama with Special Referencet o Girish Kamad’s Broken Images • Partha Sarathi Gupta
State, Society and Individuals
Time Bombs in a Time Machine: Modem Mythopoeia in Poile Sengupta’s Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni • Amit Bhattacharya
Representation of the Nation
Narrating 1962/Interrogating Progress: The Postcolonial Nation in Gurcharan Das's 9 Jakhoo Hill • Anindya Bhattacharya
Violence, Ethics and Revolution: A Study of Asif Currimbhoy’s Bengal Trilogy • Devamitra Chakraborty
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