CONTENTS:- Preface; 1. Postcolonialism and fiction in English: some considerations/Sheobhushan Shukla and Anu Shukla; 2. From postcoloniality to globalization: the comprador-intellectual as the the site of disciplinary negotiation/Saikat Majumdar; 3. The ethics of sexual limits: the English patient and the Ebony box/A. Clare Brandabur; 4. "Out at last"? unlearning the female privilege by mimicking the master's discourse: a postcolonial reading of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wallpaper"/Elvira Pulitano; 5. "I am an Englishman. . . . almost": autobiography, fantasy and postcolonial identity in Hanif Kureishi's the Buddha of Suburbia/Daniel Sanjiv Roberts; 6. War as confect and contact: a post-colonial view on the Ottoman-Hungarian relationship during the 16 century (based on Geza Gardonyi's novel the Eclipse of the Crescent Moon)/Hima Gabriela; 7. 'Condemned by ourselves': empire and its discontents in three narratives of the Indian mutiny of 1857/Pablo Mukherjee; 8. Touching the language of citizenship in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost/Sandeep Sanghera; 9. A bend in the river: Naipaul's thrust for neo-colonialism/Haidar Eid; 10. Tom Brown's Imperial inclination/Miriam Murtuza; 11. The protagonist's engagement with society in Saul Bellow/Anu Shukla;
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Postcolonialism, a major critical discourse in the humanities, especially in literary studies, has been amply interrogated but needs further interrogation in respect of its potentialities and prejudices, privileges and paradoxes. Whereas it paves the way for globalization and postnationalism. It also leads to fierce contestation and controversy. It aims at the generation of non-dominative and non-coercive epistemology but is politicizes the works/texts and gets mired in the politics of power. Some eminent scholars from distant and different parts of the world make a serious endeavour to define, what has so far remained indefinable, post-colonialism and its various, contrarious dimensions, its extensions and limitations and its collateral and coterminous sites. The work would not lay any claim to its being definitive but it certainly offers seminal insights into some current raging questions about postcolonialism, its special affinity with fiction, feminism and quest for identity, ethnic and linguistic and issues of self, alterity and subalternism.
