The English Paradigm in India : Essays in Language, Literature and Culture

"This collection pulls together a wide range of perspectives to explore the possibilities and the boundaries of the paradigm of English studies in India. It examines national identity and the legacy of colonialism through a study of comparative and multi ethnic literature, education, English language studies and the role ICT now plays in all of these fields. Contributors look at how the issue of identity can be addressed and understood through food studies, linking food, culture and identity. The volume also considers the timely and very relevant question of gender in Indian society, of the role of the woman, the family and the community in patriarchal contemporary Indian society. Through the lens of literature, culture, gender, politics, this exciting volume pulls together the threads which constitute modern Indian identity"-- Provided by publisher Preface 6 Contents 8 Editors and Contributors 11 Chapter 1 Introduction 19 Works Cited 23 Chapter 2 Comparative Literature in India in the Twenty-first Century 24 Comparative Literature: Apprehensions and Interventions in India 39 Works Cited 46 Chapter 3 Confronting the Canon Contrapuntally: The Example of Edward Said 48 II 55 III 62 Works Cited 64 Chapter 4 Debating, Challenging or Accepting Patriarchy? Assessing Indian Women’s Role in Society and Creative Writing 65 Women as Victims 66 Women’s Empowerment in Different Perspectives 67 The Sarpanches in the Panchayati Raj System 67 The Kargil War Widows 70 The Justice Giver in Villages 71 Women in Feature Films 75 Women Writers in Literature 76 Indian Women Writers in English 77 Indian Women Writers in the Vernacular Languages 79 Creative Voices of Woman Poets 83 Works Cited 86 Chapter 5 Social Imagination and Nation Image: Exploring the Sociocultural Milieu in Regional Indian Short Stories Translated in English 88 I 90 II 93 III 96 IV 99 IV 101 VI 102 Works Cited 103 Chapter 6 Idli, Dosai, Sambar, Coffee: Consuming Tamil Identity 105 Works Cited 114 Chapter 7 Curfewed Night in Elsinore: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider 115 Song 118 Surveillance 120 Graveyards 121 Works Cited 123 Chapter 8 Interrogating Gendered Spirituality in Phaniyamma and The Saga of South Kamrup 124 Works Cited 136 Chapter 9 Resisting Patriarchy Without Separatism: A Re-Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors 138 Works Cited 150 Chapter 10 Cultural Assimilation and the Politics of Beauty in Postwar American Fiction by Ethnic Women Writers 152 Works Cited 164 Chapter 11 Agha Shahid Ali and Contemporary World Poetry 165 Works Cited 176 Chapter 12 Critique of Normality in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree 178 Works Cited 193 Chapter 13 The Personal Is Political: Slavery, Trauma, and the White Man’s Legacy 195 Works Cited 206 Chapter 14 Women in Diaspora, Stranded on the No-Man’s Land: A Study of Selected Works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 207 Works Cited 213 Chapter 15 Food Images and Identity in the Selected Writings of Three Indian American Women Writers 215 Works Cited 222 Chapter 16 Resistance, Resilience, Survival: Role of Family and Community in Jack Davis’s No Sugar 224 Works Cited 240 Chapter 17 Mediation of Multimodal Word Literature and Indirect Translation: Analysing The Adventures of Tintin 242 Works Cited 250 Chapter 18 Institutional Discourses, Technology-Mediated Practices and Pedagogy: A Critical Perspective 251 Introduction 251 Background of the Study 253 The Research Problem 255 Methodology 255 The Discourse of Institutions 256 Text I 256 Text II 258 Text III 260 The Implementation Dilemma 261 The Discourse of Practice 263 The Blog Project 264 Google Groups Project 266 The Pedagogic Exchange 268 Works Cited 270 Chapter 19 Building Reputational Bridges Over Crises Situations 272 Reputation and Image Repair 273 Culture 275 Case Studies 276 Overview of Crises 277 Tata Nano Fire Crisis 277 Ford Tire Crisis 277 Cadbury India’s Worm Crisis 278 Coca-Cola’s Belgian Contamination Crisis 278 Impact of Crises 278 Strategies Adopted by Companies 280 Tata Motors Ltd. 280 Ford Motor Company 280 Cadbury India 281 Coca-Cola Company 282 Analysis of Cultural Attributes 283 Conclusion 286 Work Cited 287 Chapter 20 Observations on an Instance of Negative Interaction in Sarala Mahabharata 292 Works Cited 299 Bibliography 300 Index 319 Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Introduction (Shweta Rao Garg, Deepti Gupta)....Pages 1-5 Comparative Literature in India in the Twenty-first Century (Avadhesh Kumar Singh)....Pages 7-30 Confronting the Canon Contrapuntally: The Example of Edward Said (Fakrul Alam)....Pages 31-47 Debating, Challenging or Accepting Patriarchy? Assessing Indian Women’s Role in Society and Creative Writing (Somdatta Mandal)....Pages 49-71 Social Imagination and Nation Image: Exploring the Sociocultural Milieu in Regional Indian Short Stories Translated in English (Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry)....Pages 73-89 Idli, Dosai, Sambar, Coffee: Consuming Tamil Identity (G. J. V. Prasad)....Pages 91-100 Curfewed Night in Elsinore: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (Shormishtha Panja)....Pages 101-109 Interrogating Gendered Spirituality in Phaniyamma and The Saga of South Kamrup (Jaiwanti Dimri)....Pages 111-124 Resisting Patriarchy Without Separatism: A Re-Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors (Suraj Gunwant, Rashmi Gaur)....Pages 125-138 Cultural Assimilation and the Politics of Beauty in Postwar American Fiction by Ethnic Women Writers (Nilanjana Ghosal, Srirupa Chatterjee)....Pages 139-151 Agha Shahid Ali and Contemporary World Poetry (M. L. Raina)....Pages 153-165 Critique of Normality in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree (Sanjoy C K, Gurumurthy Neelakantan)....Pages 167-183 The Personal Is Political: Slavery, Trauma, and the White Man’s Legacy (Lekha Roy)....Pages 185-196 Women in Diaspora, Stranded on the No-Man’s Land: A Study of Selected Works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Deepti Gupta, Sumeet Brar)....Pages 197-204 Food Images and Identity in the Selected Writings of Three Indian American Women Writers (Shweta Rao Garg)....Pages 205-213 Resistance, Resilience, Survival: Role of Family and Community in Jack Davis’s No Sugar (Hem Raj Bansal)....Pages 215-232 Mediation of Multimodal Word Literature and Indirect Translation: Analysing The Adventures of Tintin (Urjani Chakravarty)....Pages 233-241 Institutional Discourses, Technology-Mediated Practices and Pedagogy: A Critical Perspective (Atanu Bhattacharya, Preet Hiradhar)....Pages 243-263 Building Reputational Bridges Over Crises Situations (Asha Kaul, Avani Desai)....Pages 265-284 Observations on an Instance of Negative Interaction in Sarala Mahabharata (B. N. Patnaik)....Pages 285-292 Back Matter ....Pages 293-317