Inventing Ties and Bonds in English: Diasporic Literary Consciousness 01 Edition

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Diasporic literature is literature with a difference. It is not only a conscousness or an awareness of the other within the other nativist's burden of a backward motion love but also of the verisimilitude to accomdate in a multicultural world. The need to know and understand other worlds has been humans congenital nature and this can be realized only by the extension of our selves. In fact, all of us are diasporic, thanks to the books of history and geography. Our existence in today's world can be elevated through cultural excahnge. The chemistry of love alone can pave the wayto a multicultural, multilingual world where we respond, correspond and commingle. The quintessnece of all diasporic literature thus lies in inventing ties and bonds. About Author : Binod Mishra (b.1966), an Assistant Professor of English in IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India has been teaching English in various capacities in many reputed institutions since 1995. He has attended various national and international conferenes/seminars, published a good number of research papers and delivered invited lecturers. He has worked for UGC Minor Research Project entitled A Journey from Innocence for Experience in Major Indo-Anglish Novelists. He has authored Existential Concerns in the Novels of Mulk Raj Anand (2005) & Grammar in Use (2006), a series of three books.P.J. Paul Dhanasekaran, a Senior lecturer of English in Sherubtse College Kanglungh Campus, Royal University of Bhutan has been teaching English since 1995. He has attended and presented papers in many International Conferences in TESOL and done extensive research on ESL/ELT in Bhutan. Educated at Madras University, he had been a course book writer for Government of Tamil Nadu apart from being a curriculum designer for the Royal University of Bhutan for BA (Hons) English courses, Business Communication and Communication Skills. His areas of interest include Modern poetry, Indian Writing in English , Comparative Literature, American Literature, Translation Studies and Folk Literature. Contents : ForewordPrefaceList of ContributorsDimensions of Indian Diaspora Fiction in English Nations of the Souls: A Global Poetic FraternityExperiments with Truth: Restructuring of Gandhian Experiences in Naipaul's Half a Life and Magic SeedsChaudhuri's Prophetic Vision in Three Horsemen of the New ApocalypseDravidian Rhythms in Raja Rao's Kanthapura An Exploration of the Feminist Ideology in the Novels of Bharti Mukherjee and Anjanta AppachanaDom Moraes: The Wandering MinstrelGeneration in Exile: A Reading of V.S. Naipaul's Magic SeedsSpell of Gandhi in Raja Rao's KanthapuraThy Hand, Great Anarch!: Autobiography as History Indian Diasporic Writing from Singapore: A Broad OutlineThe Primacy of Connectedness in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry TideA Search for Dreams in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Queen of DreamsFlood Tides of Language and Submerged Communication: Language and its Inadequecy in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry TideShynthesizing the Orient and the Occident: A Study of Kamala Markandya's Pleasure CityInterview with Stephen GillAn Unknown Intellectual Made in India: An Appraisal of Nirad. C. Chaudhari's AutobiographyThird Space of Enunciation: Reading Bharati Mukherjee's JasmineLand and Identity in the Poetry of Stephen Gill and Jayant MahapatraDiasporic Interpolations in Indian FilmsShifting Continents in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of LossThe Diasporic Poetry of G.S. Sharat Chandra Index