Immigration and Estrangement in Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Study
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CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Assertive Nature of Indian Women Immigrants as an
Indispensable Outcome of Gender and Culture Oriented Restraints: A Study of
Manju Kapur’s Immigrant and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Vine of
Desire
-Prof. D. Amalraj
2.
Gulf
Migration: A Literary Representation of “Goat days” by Benyamin
- Malyashree Mandal
3. A Study of Multiculturalism in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
-Dr. Prachi Priyanka
4. Migrant
Writers and the Question of Authenticity: A Study on Booker Prize-Winning
Novels from India
-Dr. M. S. Veena
5.
Diasporic
Concerns of Identity in The Namesake
-
Md. Sabirunnisa Gouse
6. Shifting Identities
and Cross-Cultural Conflicts in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccustomed
Earth
-Meera Prasannan
7. Immigrant and Estrangement in Indian
Diasporic Novel What the Body Remembers
by Shauna Singh Baldwin
- S. Tamilarasi
8. Deconstructing the Hybrid Hyphenated
Diasporic Identity: A Study of ChitraBanerjee Divakaruni’s Sister of My Heart and The
Vine of Desire
– Dr. Jaishree Jaikrishnan
9. Facets of Multiculturalism in
reference to Bharathi Mukherjee's Desirable
Daughters
- Dr. S. Mahalakshmi
10.
Immigrant
Consciousness of the Female Protagonists; Padma, Parvati and Tara in Bharati
Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters: A Psycho-analytical Study
-G. Sankar & Dr. R.
Soundararajan
11. Conflicting
Mindsets: The Scars of Cultural Tragedy in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies
-Parveen
Kumar
12. Immigrant Identity and the Process of
Assimilation: A Diasporic Reading of The
Namesake
-Rameesa PM
13. Homeland or Hostland, A limbotic Existence
Amidst of Diasporic Space: Special References to the Selected Works of Meena
Alexander
-Durjoy Bhattacharya
14. Home and Away: Migrancy, Diasporicity and
Identity in Select Novels of V.S. Naipaul
-Dipak Giri
Notes on Contributors
NOTES
ON CONTRIBUTORS
1.
D. Amalraj is a retired Professor of English. He has put in nearly
45 years of teaching and research experience. He has published so many Study
Aid-series on Shakespearean works such as Twelfth Night, The Merchant of
Venice, Julius Caser, and The Tempest. He has authored two books.
One is Literary Terms and it is a personal publication. The other is Research
Methodology for Literary Research with author ISBN as a reference text for
research scholars. Last June 2018, he has brought out his fifth edition of it.
It has been prescribed as a reference text for MA English both in Periyar
University and PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore. It has been
naturally born out of his rich experience in teaching Research Methodology. It
contains all the guidelines recommended in Anderson and Poole and MLA 7th
and 8th editions. He has got his six articles on various topics in
different fields published in six printed anthologies. Two more anthologies are
expected to be published with his two articles.
He started his teaching career in June 1969 at Kandasamy Naidu College
for Men at Madras. Since June 1970 till he has retired as a Selection Grade
lecturer in 2004, he has worked at Kandasamy Kandar College, Paramathy Velur,
Namakkal District in Tamil Nadu. Soon after his retirement, from June 15, 2004,
he has worked as the head and Research Supervisor for M.Phil regular Students
of Periyar University, Salem till he got relieved in December 2011. He has also
worked as a Part time Professor at Coimbatore Bishop Appasamy College from June
2011 to March 2012.
2.
Malyashree Mandal is currently an Assistant Professor in the
Department of English at Diamond Harbour Women’s University, West Bengal,
India. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in the UGC-Centre for the Study of Indian
diaspora at University of Hyderabad, India. She was achieved Asian Graduate
Student Fellowship in 2016 from Asia Research Institute, National University of
Singapore. Her specialisation areas are English Literature, Diaspora and
Cultural Studies, Post-colonial Studies and Critical Theory. Her e-mail: is malyashree007@gmail.com.
3.
Dr. Prachi Priyanka is an Assistant
Professor, School of Languages & Culture, Sharda University, Greater
Noida, Uttar Pradesh. She
has worked as a freelance editor for a reputed publishing house and has
experience in teaching English literature to graduate and post-graduate
courses. She also teaches language and communication skills to International
students. She writes in both English and Hindi and her research papers, poems
and stories have been published in books, online journals, print magazines and
short story anthologies. Her book ‘Thistle
& Weeds’ was published in 2016.
4.
Dr. M. S. Veena is Assistant Professor of English in Government
Polytechnic College, Kunnamkulam, Kerala. She has a teaching experience of over
twelve years. Her research interests
include Postcolonial Studies and Gender Studies.
5. Md. Sabirunnisa
Gouse is an Assistant Professor in Anil Neerukonda
Institute of Engineering & Technology, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
Having completed her M.A, M.Phil, she is currently pursuing her PhD from Andhra
University on Diaspora Studies. She is specialized in teaching ELT and
literature. Having started her teaching career in 2005, she has extensive
experience of teaching Soft skills and creative writing to the students. She
handled various UG and PG students and trained them in developing their
proficiency in English communication by improving their verbal and non verbal
skills.
6. Meera Prasannan is an Assistant Professor of English at NSS Hindu
College, Changanacherry. She has published poems and articles in national and
international journals. Her area of interest includes cultural studies,
postcolonial studies and fantasy literature.
7. S.
Tamilarasi (M.A., M. Phil, PhD) is an
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Theivanai Ammal College for Women,
Villupuram.
8. Dr. Jaishree
Jaikrishnan currently works as an Assistant Professor
(On Contract), Department of English, School of Management, National Institute
of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka. A first rank holder and gold medalist in
B.A as well as M.A English Literature, she attained her doctoral degree from
Kannur University, Kerala. Her PhD thesis was a study on the various
connotations of ‘space’ in the works of Australian novelists, Eva Hornung and
Kate Grenville. Her research interests include Australian fiction, diaspora
literature, refugee studies and migrant literature. She has published research
articles on contemporary Australian women novelists.
9. Dr. S. Mahalakshmi, M.A., M. Phil., B. Ed. P. hd., SET, Assistant Professor
of English, is a scholar and received her Doctoral Degree from Periyar University,
Salem. She has completed State Eligibility Test (SET) in the year 2011. Having
more than 10 yrs of teaching experience, presently she is a teaching faculty in
PG Dept of English, Arulmigu Palaniandavar College of Arts and Culture (Aided),
Palani, Dindigul District, Tamilnadu. She has been acted as an External
Examiner for M.phil Scholars. To her credit she has acted as a member in
various bodies like- Board of Studies, Women Development Cell, IQUAC (Internal Quality Assessment Cell) etc
and Organized State level Seminars. Her keen interest in research made her to
publish and present more than 30 research articles in scholarly journals,
seminars conferences and workshops.
10. G. Sankar is a PhD Research Scholar in English, National College
(Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli and Assistant Professor, Department of English,
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore-641 004, India.
11. Dr. R.
Soundararajan, Associate Professor & Research Guide
Department of English, National College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli-620 001,
India.
12. Parveen Kumar is a Research Scholar in the Department of
English, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University. His research interest primarily
focuses on Ecocriticism and Medical Humanities. He has published research
papers in several national and international journals. He has also cleared
JKSET and interested in writing poetry, short-stories and variety of articles.
13. Rameesa PM is a PhD scholar in the department of English, University
of Hyderabad. She is currently working on South Asian Queer Diaspora Writing.
Her major areas of research interest include Indian writing in English,
Postcolonial Studies, gender studies, and contemporary Diaspora writing.
14. Durjoy Bhattacharya is an M. Phil Research Scholar at Raiganj University,
Department Of English, Uttar Dinajpur and a Guest Lecturer at Kumargang
College, Department of English, Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal.
15. Dipak Giri- M.A. (Double), B.Ed. - is a Ph. D. Research Scholar in
Raiganj University, Raiganj, Uttar Dinajpur (W.B.). He is working as an
Assistant Teacher in Katamari High School (H.S.), Cooch Behar, West Bengal. He
is an Academic Counsellor in Netaji Subhas Open University, Cooch Behar College
Study Centre, Cooch Behar, West Bengal. He was formerly Part-Time Lecturer in
Cooch Behar College, Vivekananda College and Thakur Panchanan Mahila
Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal and worked as a Guest Lecturer in Dewanhat College,
West Bengal. He is a well-known editor
and edited eight books on variety of topics, especially on Indian English
Literature. He is a well-known
academician and has published many scholarly research articles in books and
journals of both national and international repute. His area of studies
includes Postcolonial Literature, Indian Writing in English, Dalit Literature,
Feminism and Gender Studies.