Postcolonial Literature in New Millenium: Philosophy, Politics and Aesthetics contains 15 essays written by scholars showcasing the multivalent offshoot of of postcolonial literature in the first quarter of the 21st century. Texts and contexts taken up in different essays engage with the contemporary realities of countries and regions once a part of the Commonwealth and which have now evolved as independent national, political, and cultural entities while resisting colonialism and reconstructing new identities at the same time. If deliberations on nation, home, displacement, and migration represent the consciousness of communities inflicted with a sense of loss and trauma; the advent of health humanities, graphic novels, cinema, and digital humanities intersect with the advancement on the wave of modernity. Since the progress of such societies is concomitant with the rise of discourses from the margin, there are essays implicated with the subtle nuances of dalit, gender, and tribal identities. Environmental crisis along with pandemic, an inevitable outcome of the technology driven progress, and their impact on indigenous communities have been the core concern of some essayists while a few have speculated about Eco futurism and posthumanism. Cross-cultural encounters necessitate the act of translation which has been taken up. This anthology of critical writings with its kaleidoscopic range encompassing recent scholarships will be quite handy for academicians and researchers interested in this area.
Lata Dubey, Ph.D., is professor in the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Her areas of interest include diasporic writings, British fiction, Victoria poetry, linguistics, contemporary fiction, Indian Literatures in English, feminism, contemporary theory, New Literatures in English, narratology. She has published more than two dozen research papers in different international and nationally-circulated journals, and has lectured at several conferences, seminars, and U.G.C.-H.R.D.C. Refresher Courses as resource person.
Ashish Kumar Pathak (b.1985) studied at the University of Allahabad and distinguished as Gold Medalist in English. Having obtained the degree of D. Phil. on T. S. Eliot, he is currently teaching as Assistant professor in the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P. India. Previously he taught at Central University of South Bihar. Patna University and Vasanta College for Women, Rajghat, Varanasi. Dr Pathak is author of the book T. S. Eliot’s Later Phase: A Study of Poetry, Drama and Criticism (Luminous Books, 2017) along with publishing research articles and chapters in national and internation journals and anthologies. His translation work has been published from the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (2023).
Prof Dr Saugata Bhaduri teaches at the Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Amrit Sen, Ph.D., is a professor at the Department of English, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati (Santiniketan, West Bengal, India), and is, presently, the Director of Granthan Vibhaga (the publishing-section) of Visva-Bharati at Kolkata. A recipient of several awards and accolades, including those from the Government of India and the U.G.C., Sen has authored/co-authored 13 books till date, and has published numerous essays and articles in reputed international and national journals. He had been at the University of Edinburgh as Fellow of a UKIERI-programme, and travels all around the world, lecturing at different international conferences, and teaching at numerous universities. Indian diasporic writings, Rabindranath Tagore’s literature, and 18th century English literature are on the list of his research-interests.
