Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture

Navleen Multani is an Associate Professor in English, Head, School of Languages, and Director, Public Relations Cell at Jagat Guru Nanak Dev Punjab State Open University (JGND PSOU), Patiala (India). She is a postgraduate in English from Panjab University, Chandigarh, and holds PhD in English Literature and Language from Punjabi University Patiala (Punjab, India). She is Member of the Research Committee and the Academic Council at JGND PSOU. She is Area Editor with Oxford Online Bibliographies: Literary and Critical Theory. She has edited Essays on Classics (2019). She is Program Coordinator MA English and Certificate Course in Effective Business and Social Communication at JGND PSOU. She specializes in theories of resistance and Indian writings. Research articles on contemporary topics written by her have been published in Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature. She teaches language, literature, linguistics and communication skills in various degree programs.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments Part I1. Jacques Rancière and the "Politics of Literature" 2. Albert Camus's Concept of Resistance 3. Michel de Certeau and Spatial Practices Part II4. Arundhati Roy's An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire 5. The Branded 6. Resistance in P. Sachidanandan's Govardhan's Travels 7. Women in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide 8. Indra Sinha's Animal's People Part III9. Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084 10. The Marginalized in Breast Stories 11. Veiled Identities in Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran 12. Transnational Identities in The Namesake 13. "Strangenesses and Selves" in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine 14. Sophocles' Antigone Part IV15. The Bog Body in Seamus Heaney’s "Punishment" 16. Environmental Imagination and Culture Bibliography Index