Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity

Srirupa Chatterjee is Associate Professor of English, Gender Studies, and Body Image Studies in the Department of Liberal Arts at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.. Her books include edited volumes titled Female Body Image in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture (2024) and Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India (2023).Sharada Chigurupati is Professor at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. She has published research articles in national and international journals. She is the lead editor of American Literary Studies in Post Millennial India: Critical Perspectives (2023).

• Introduction - Srirupa Chatterjee; I. Postcolonial Identity Politics: Modernity and Poetry from South Asia; 1. Nativist Modernity in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra - Sarada Thallam; 2. Interrogating Identity Politics: A Reading of Jean Arasanayagam’s Select Poems - Sharada Chigurupati; II. Indian Fiction and Postcolonial Modernity: The Twentieth Century and Beyond; 3. Girish Karnad’s Ecomythological Sphere: A Structuralist Study of Hayavadana and The Fire and the Rain - Rekha Karim; 4. Anita Desai’s Perspective on the Holocaust in Baumgartner’s Bombay - Tiasa Bal and Gurumurthy Neelakantan; 5.Gendering Energy: Mobility and Feminist Modernities in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe - Swaralipi Nandi; 6. Dalit Life Writing: Local Moorings, Global Contexts - Rohini Mokashi-Punekar and Himaxee Bordoloi; III. Cultural Modernity and Gender Politics in African and Arabic Literature; 7. Empowering Humanity through Feminism: Modernity and Sexual Politics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Writings - Aswathi Velayathikode Anand; 8. Incarcerated Lives, Thwarted Desires: Masculinity, Modernity, and the War in Midaq Alley - Shailendra Kumar Singh; IV. Modernity, Assimilatory Politics, and Trauma in Contemporary Australian Drama; 9. History, Memory, and Storytelling: Performing Trauma and 'Stolen Generation' Narratives in Jane Harrison's Stolen and Wesley Enoch and Mailman's The 7 Stages of Grieving - Sibendu Chakraborty; V. Britain, Political Modernity, and Literary Responses; 10. Utopia vs Dystopia: A Carnivalesque Study of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies - Rama N. H. Alapati; 11. Negotiating traumatic memories of migration in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills - Rima Bhattacharya; 12. The Postface of History and the Posthumous Society: Aesthetic Terrorism and the Post-ideological Condition in Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Cleansed - Arnab Ray; VI. Cultural Modernity and Voices of Resistance in Caribbean Literature; 13. From Space to A Small Place: An Ecocritical Study of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place - Kotti Sree Ramesh; 14. Subverting Cultures of Toxic Masculinity: Father Figures and Caribbean Gender Norms in the Novels of Elizabeth Acevedo - Vinita Vincent; VII. From Postwar Christianity to Millennial Postsecularism : Spiritual Modernity and North America; 15. From Controversy to Credibility: Counterculture Modernities in John Updike’s Couples - Srirupa Chatterjee and Swathi Krishna S.;16. Exploring the Postsecular: The Modern Self, Community and Connectedness in E. L. Doctorow’s City of God and Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men - Nilanjana Ghosal; 17. Redeeming Cloistered Womanhood: Spiritual Modernity in Mary Gordon’s Pearl and There Your Heart Lies - Srirupa Chatterjee and Aswathi Velayathikode Anand; Conclusion; Index