THE IACLALS JOURNAL, VOLUME 1, 2015
Foreword
GJV Prasad
7
Editorial
Menakshi Bharat and Angelie Multani
9
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
GJV Prasad
7
Editorial
Menakshi Bharat and Angelie Multani
9
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