Journal Volume 3

THE IACLALS JOURNAL, VOLUME 3, 2017
 

Editorial
M. Asaduddin and Swati Pal
v

To Confront or to Circumvent:
Premchand’s Studied Radicalism in Colonial North India
Shailendra Kumar Singh
1


The Politics of Caste and Textual Cleansing:
A Case of Babu Rajab Ali’s Poetry
Amandeep Kaur and Jasdeep Singh
11

One Part Women:
Controversial Challenge to Hegemonic Masculinity
Usha Mudiganti
21

Of Khuloos and Khutoot:
Rashid Jahan ‘Angareywali’ and the Unholy Mix of Feminism, Islam and Communism
Sania Hashmi
29

Flak and Censor:
Ismat Chughtai’s ‘Lihaaf’, The Story on Trial
Shaifta Ayoub
37 

The Book Burning That Wasn’t:
Sense and Censorship of Fan Works on the Internet
Lakshmi Menon
47 

The Curious Controversy of Corrupting Innocence:
Narrating Love, Sex, Death in Indian English Children’s Literature
Anurima Chanda
53 

Can the Diaspora Speak?
Authentic/Exotic Literary Narratives
Simran Chadha
61 

The Controversy of no Controversy:
A Comparative Study of the Reception of Fire and Margarita with a Straw
Someshwar Sati
71 

Critiquing the Controversial:
Ethics in/and Literature in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
Chinmaya Lal Thakur
78 

Ginsberg ‘Howl’ for a ‘Beat’ America:
The Controversy and the Hero in Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems
Ritwick Bhattacharjee
85 

The Curious Case of Mee Nathuram Godse Boltoy:
Reading Controversial Politics and/or the Politics of Controversy
Nishtha Pandey
92 

‘Mai Geeta ke Upar Haath Rakh ke Kehta Hun’:
A Perspective on the Mahabharataand ‘Acche’ Censorship
Sujay Thakur
99 

Book Reviews
107

Bio-Notes
118