At the Crossroads of Culture and Literature
EDITOR- Suchorita Chattopadhyay and Debashree Dattaray
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- EDITOR : Suchorita Chattopadhyay and Debashree Dattaray
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At the Crossroads of Literature and Culture offers a detailed and accessible socio-cultural and literary study of the material and symbolic life of indigenous communities and the South Asian diaspora in North America and India. The essays in this volume explore the manner in which contemporary indigenous and diasporic writers negotiate the ethical, political and personal affiliations of their identities and subjectivities. They initiate an intercultural dialogue which is crucial to an understanding of intercontinental relationships. Including contributions on literature, philosophy, history, language, life-writing, international relations, gender and new media, this volume focuses on both literary texts and other forms of cultural representation and, thus, revisits the ways in which diverse aspects of Indigeneity and Diaspora have been inscribed in imaginative, autobiographical and critical texts.
The Editors
Suchorita Chattopadhyay is Professor in Comparative Literature and Coordinator, Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research interests are Indigenous Canadian literature, Canadian immigrant literature, comparative study of Indian and South-East Asian literatures, and translation of Indian literatures into English. She has translated into Bangla the African novel Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo as Amader Bhagini, Anandaghatini (2007). She has also co-edited Tapestries: An Anthology of 20th Century Indian Short Stories (with Debalina Sen, 2004), Tracing Transactions: An Anthology of Critical Essays on India and Southeast Asia (with Soma Mukherjee, 2011), Ghumantoos: The Roadies of India and Canada (with Dheeman Bhattacharyya, 2013), and Tellings and Retellings: Strange Tales from Medieval China (with Barnali Chanda, 2015).
Debashree Dattaray is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and Deputy Coordinator, Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her areas of research and publication are North-East Indian Literatures, Indigenous Studies, Narrative Studies, Gender, Folklore, Canadian Studies and Methodology of Comparative Indian Literature. She is the author of Oral Traditions of the North East: A Case Study of Karbi Oral Traditions (2015).
At the Crossroads of Literature and Culture offers a detailed and accessible socio-cultural and literary study of the material and symbolic life of indigenous communities and the South Asian diaspora in North America and India. The essays in this volume explore the manner in which contemporary indigenous and diasporic writers negotiate the ethical, political and personal affiliations of their identities and subjectivities. They initiate an intercultural dialogue which is crucial to an understanding of intercontinental relationships. Including contributions on literature, philosophy, history, language, life-writing, international relations, gender and new media, this volume focuses on both literary texts and other forms of cultural representation and, thus, revisits the ways in which diverse aspects of Indigeneity and Diaspora have been inscribed in imaginative, autobiographical and critical texts.
The Editors
Suchorita Chattopadhyay is Professor in Comparative Literature and Coordinator, Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research interests are Indigenous Canadian literature, Canadian immigrant literature, comparative study of Indian and South-East Asian literatures, and translation of Indian literatures into English. She has translated into Bangla the African novel Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo as Amader Bhagini, Anandaghatini (2007). She has also co-edited Tapestries: An Anthology of 20th Century Indian Short Stories (with Debalina Sen, 2004), Tracing Transactions: An Anthology of Critical Essays on India and Southeast Asia (with Soma Mukherjee, 2011), Ghumantoos: The Roadies of India and Canada (with Dheeman Bhattacharyya, 2013), and Tellings and Retellings: Strange Tales from Medieval China (with Barnali Chanda, 2015).
Debashree Dattaray is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and Deputy Coordinator, Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her areas of research and publication are North-East Indian Literatures, Indigenous Studies, Narrative Studies, Gender, Folklore, Canadian Studies and Methodology of Comparative Indian Literature. She is the author of Oral Traditions of the North East: A Case Study of Karbi Oral Traditions (2015).
Table of Contents
| Preface | Vii-Ix |
| 1. The Slackening Tie: Analysing The Changing Bond Between Humans And The Environment In Selected Works Of T.S. Eliot And Ernest Hemingway Shivani Jha |
1-11 |
| 2. Watershed Aesthetics: Towards An Ecocentric Cultural Sensibility Rambhau M. Badode |
12-16 |
| 3. An Ecologic Overview From Genesis To Apocalypse: Interpreting God, Nature, Human, Animal And Beast In The Bible Bini B.S. |
17-34 |
| 4. The Ecologically Lonely And Bereft World Of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Neenu Kumar |
35-56 |
| 5. Magic Realism As Ecocriticism: An Analysis Of Salman Rushdie’s Haroun And The Sea Of Stories Nisha Tiwari |
57-69 |
| 6. Quo Vadis Human Civilization?: The Ecopoetics Of Thoreau’s Walden In The Anthropocene Shivani Jha |
70-82 |
| 7. Environmental Praxis Through Literature Rashmi LeeGeorge |
83-96 |
| Notes On Editor And Contributors | 97 |
| Index | 99-102 |