Somdatta Mandal (118 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Murderer: English rendering of Khooni - the last novel published posthumously. Book.

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Condition: New. pp. viii + 296 1st Edition.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Contents Introduction/Somdatta Mandal and Himadri Lahiri. I. Theoretical Paradigms 1. Eat Me America some aspects of Indian writing in America/Mohan Ramanan. 2. Political realities and the colors of imagination/Jasbir Jain. 3. Traveling with walls the South Asian intellectual in the United States/Manju Jaidka. 4. The text as narrative reading ideology/Sukalpa Bhattacharjee. 5. Crossing borders in search of Aesthetics/Himadri Lahiri. II. Chinese American Voices 6. Racist stereotyping and contemporary Chinese American literature/Gulshan Rai Kataria. 7. American circumstances and Chinese character narrative strategies in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club/Gonul Pultar. III. African American Voices 8. African American drama's journey towards the centrestage/Jap Preet Kaur Bhangu. 9. Ballad of a dream deferred blackness and bleakness in the poetry of Langston Hughes/Mina Surjeet Singh. 10. Folk creativity as a subversive gesture in Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God/Punam Gupta. 11. Racism and the literature of protest in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man/R.G. Kulkarni. IV. Indian American Voices 12. A Forest On Fire the literary imagination of Meena Alexander/E. Nageswara Rao. 13. Questing otherness along the fault lines/Nila Das. 14. Straddling two worlds diasporic dislocation in Vijay Lakshmi's Pomegranate Dreams/Anil Raina. 15. Stuck In Dead Space the sense and sensibility of the Indian American in Bharati Mukherjee's short stories/Anu Celly. 16. Tightrope Walk Relationships in multicultural space/Ila Rathor. 17. Cultural displacement in the stories of Anjana Appachana and Shauna Singh Baldwin/Alka Saxena. 18. Strictly male voice a study of Prem Chopra's Salaam New York/Eami Mathew. V. Other Voices 19. The Ignored Americans Speak critiquing native American female voices/Mukul Sengupta. 20. Robin White's works a reverse navigation/I.H Shihan. 21. Past the Shadow and the Silence Interpreting Arab American women's poetry/Indrani Datta Chaudhuri. 22. Self and the Southern Heritage a reappraisal of the short fiction of Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty/Pratibha Nagpal. VI. Intercultural Studies 23. Ethnic tribulations in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and William Styron's Sophie's Choice/K.B. Razdan. 24. Ideology and attitude towards nature a comparative study of Claude McKay and Bharathidasan/S.S. Kumar. 25. Politics of Complexity mapping the space of multiethnic Herstories/Deepshikha Kotwal. 26. Within and without Margins cross cultural spaces in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Kingston's The Woman Warrior/Shukla Saha. VII. The Performing Arts 27. The South Asian Diaspora vis a vis the Ubiquitous Bhangra/Somdatta Mandal. 28. From the margin to the mainstream analyzing Manoj Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense/Manpreet Kaur Kang. VIII. American Studies and Its Future 29. MELUS Where Shall We Go From Here/Mohan Ramanan. In the present day multicultural world the issue of identifying an individual's space becomes a topic of significant concern particularly for an immigrant writer who is already burdened with issues of immigration acculturation and identity politics. The present anthology brings together selected papers from the 2003 MELUS India National Conference on South Asians in the United States The Diasporic Experience and the 2004 International Conference on Scene Space Scenario Contexts of multi Ethnic literatures in the Americas. Among the many contributors are Jasbir Jain Manju Jaidka E. Nageswara Rao Mohan Ramanan I.H Shihan and Gonul Pultar. The essays deal with a wide variety of themes and have been classified under several sub headings Theoretical Paradigms Indian American Chinese American African American Voices Intercultural Studies the Performing Arts and so on. The volume purports to make a rich contribution to the areas of Asian American studies ethnic studies immigrant literature and comparative studies. 312 pp.…

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Soft cover. Condition: New. In 1932 Durgabati Ghose an upper middle-class Bengali woman accompanied her husband on a trip across Europe The Westward Traveller originally Paschimjatriki is an enchanting written record of this four-month long sojourn Filtered through her upper middle-class upbringing and perceptions the narrative is observant not only emphasising on a sense of place space and landscape but also an aesthetic intrinsic appreciation of every destination The writing comes alive in the author?s everyday interactions with ordinary people be they fellow travellers or hotel owners or even beggars Focussing on an accurate description of the ?real world? she is always concerned with verisimilitudeAn interesting fact about this travelogue is that even within its set pattern it offers nuggets of history What makes the account endearing is the various examples of intercultural encounters and wry comments often arising from not knowing the language and making value judgments that can be cited at random As Ashis Nandy says in his Foreword to this translated work ?the way Durgabati recounts her adventures in Europe makes them variations on familiar Bengali domesticity interpersonal patterns and femininity played outside their natural locale This gives the travelogue a stamp of predictability and at the same time a touch of robust irreverent charm and self-confidence? To translate this depiction of Europe in colonial times through the eyes of a modernising Bengali woman has been a ?labour of love? for translator Somdatta Mandal Simple and lucid in style the work retains the traces of the times in which it was originally written and is faithful to the intention of the narrative Coloured in the expanding consciousness of an individual woman exploring previously unknown areas of the world away from the home and hearth characterised by conventionality conservatism and domesticity this travel narrative will be a significant contribution to the history of women?s travel narratives from colonial Bengal 128 pp.…

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Though written and published serially during the middle of his writing career around 1943-1944, Manik Bandyopadhyay s Khooni (The Murderer) was discovered much later and published posthumously in book form only in 2013. Like most of his other novels, this short novella deals primarily with the dark alleyways of the human mind of ordinary people. Here we find the psychological ramifications within the mind of the main protagonist Mukunda, who, after murdering his wife Kamini, tries to lead life according to his own terms.…

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Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Travels formed an integral part of the personae and creative artist that was Rabindranath Tagore. During his travels to England and the USA (1912-13 and 1920) Tagore wrote essays for publication in various Bengali journals. In 1939, Tagore selected fourteen of these essays and an appendix containing seven letters he had written to some of the teachers in the Shantiniketan ashram while he was on these trips, for publication as a volume. Tagore rewrote the original essays then using the colloquial instead of the formal language; he also revised the texts substantially. Later editions altered the number of essays, sometimes digressing from Tagore's own selection, sometimes going back to Tagore's original formal language. The travelogue provides an insight into Tagore's perception of the different facets of western life and the diverse philosophical issues that cross his mind as he journeys from one continent to another. Translated from Bengali for the first time, Pather Sanchoy would be of interest to all those who enjoy exploring unknown territories geographically and psychologically.…

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Condition: New. pp. viii + 312.

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Soft cover. Condition: New. ISBN:9789363362475 N.A.

Condition: New. pp. 294.