American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India

Sharada Chigurupati is associate professor in the department of literatures in English at English and Foreign Languages University, India.Nageswara Rao Konda is assistant professor in the department of English at Osmania University.

• IntroductionPart One: A Conversation on American and Indian LiteratureChapter One: Inspiration from the Banks of the Indus River: A Conversation with Nibir K. Ghosh, Robin LindleyPart Two: American Poetry Chapter Two: Invoking the Goddesses Within: Women’s Writing and Negotiations with Americanness, Sweta AntonyChapter Three: Exploring ‘the only real elysium’* through Transcendental Voyages by Thoreau and Tagore, Nishamani KarChapter Four: Seasons as Motifs in Louis Gluck Poetry, A. Karunaker and S. Shiv Shankar Part Three: American Theatre Chapter Five: Rape and Religion in the Psycho Traumatic Spaces of Adrienne Kennedy’s Protagonists, Sarada ThallamChapter Six: The Politics of AIDS and the Liberatory Millenarian Vision in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Arnab RayPart Four: American Fiction Chapter Seven: Black Lives Matter: Relocating the select writings of Henry David Thoreau and Mark Twain, Mahjabeen Neshat AnjumChapter Eight: Problem of Human Education in Invisible Man: A Gambi

Written by eminent scholars on diverse issues covering various genres of modern American literature, this anthology promises to be a useful handbook for college students in the Indian subcontinent.