Journal Volume 1

THE IACLALS JOURNAL, VOLUME 1, 2015
 

Foreword
GJV Prasad
7

Editorial
Menakshi Bharat and Angelie Multani
9
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The Postcolonial Agenda:
Literary Configurations of Retrieving Human Rights in Indra Sinha’s Novel Animal’s People
Jörg-Dieter Riemenschneider
11

Indigenous/Non-British/American Literatures

Civilization and its Malcontents: Reading Novel Nomadic Spaces
Sandhya Devesan Nambiar
31 

Articulation as Resistance
Vijaya Guttal
39

The Gargantuan Reach of Civilization in Gopinath Mohanty’s Paraja
Suneeta Patnayak
44

Interview:
A Conversation with Jatin Bala: An Account of Refugee Dalit Life
Jaydeep Sarangi
50

Poetics and Politics of Marginality in Mahasweta Devi’s Breast Stories
Navleen Multani
60 

Home is Where the Heart is: Space, Place and Displacement
Vandana Mathur
74 

Urdu Fiction: Celebrating Hybridity and Pluralism
Fatima Rizvi
85 

Pinjar: Amrita Pritam and C.P. Dwivedi
Simran Chaddha
98

Margins

The Centre and the Periphery: A Reading of Adhe Adhure by Mohan Rakesh
Debashree Dattaray
111

Of Margins and Ethics: The Ecocritical Imagination
Rohit Phutela
117

Invisible People/Citizens: Re-Engaging with Hijras in India
Shaweta Nanda
124 

Globalization and its Interaction with the Margins:
A Study of Contemporary Dalit and Afro-American Narratives
Priyanka Jindal
137 

“Come Friends, Let’s Create a New Sun:”
Denotified Communities and Protest in Hindi Novels, Theatre and Poetry
Vibha S. Chauhan
143 

Towards Abling Postcolonial Discourse:
Revising the Field from a Disability Perspective
Someshwar Sati
153 

Between the Real and the Ghost:
The Cultural Politics of Sports Lifewriting
Parvinder
165 

Post-Colonial

Postmodern Sensibility in Midnight’s Children
Bhaskar Roy Barman
183 

Under Western Eyes:
Tourist Gazes in Recent Postcolonial Indian Fiction
Nilak Datta
196 

Globalization and the Internal Migrant in Anjum Hasan’s Neti Neti:
The Postcolonial Hangover is never Overrated here!
Harpreet Vohra
207 

The Translation and Transliteration of Identities:
A Post-Postcolonial Perspective
Ayesha Abrar
213 

Preserving the Sacred:
A Study of the Kolkata Durga Pujo in Juxtaposition with the Study of Kumortuli
Shayeari Dutta and Hiya Chatterjee
217 

Poetics of Cosmopolitanism:
Stephen Gill’s Shrine as a Sociological Document
Chitra Thrivikraman Nair
225 

Looking Beyond

Revisioning America:
The Future of American Studies
Sachidananda Mohanty
235 

Reviews

Nationalism vs Globalisation
Bharti Arora
244 

Of Translation and Beyond
Rita Sinha
247 

Obituary

U.R. Ananthamurthy
Shrikanth B.R.
250