Women and Literature in India
This collection explores Indian women’s writing, from ancient poets to contemporary voices, as a powerful tool for resistance and emancipation. The essays delve into the intersections of caste, class, and gender to reveal the complex, textured realities of women in India.
Postcolonialism and African Women’s Identity
This book explores African women’s identity in Buchi Emecheta’s novel Second-Class Citizen from a feminist viewpoint. It critically analyzes how hybridity, race, and gender roles shape narratives of resistance, internalized oppression, and the struggle for selfhood.
Questioning the Eco-Ethics of Future Colonialism and Terraforming of Mars
Can we escape an apocalypse on Earth by terraforming another planet? Using Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, this book argues this is simply the future of colonization, dooming us to repeat our mistakes. It reveals that our economic systems are the root of these catastrophes.
This book analyzes Henrik Ibsen’s thinking on female subjugation and oppression in 19th-century society. Through a lens of his major plays, including *A Doll’s House* and *Hedda Gabler*, it explores his treatment of women and their harassment in every sphere of their lives.
Memories in Lace
Xénia, a Greek American, visits the island of Zakynthos to research the lives of elderly women. She collects and “crochets” their memories into interconnected stories of immigration, crisis, and intergenerational resilience, which transmute into a choral storytelling experience.
American Multiculturalism in Context
This text brings together the reflections of a group of experts who met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in 2015. It reports on Reed’s thoughts from the meeting, and looks at the concept “multiculturalism” in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
This book investigates language contact and the language-culture relationship, as well as stylistic and syntactic perspectives on the English language. It also looks at 20th-century literature and theoretical approaches in cultural studies.
A Story of Perfume
Scent is an invisible force shaping memory, identity, and artistic expression. This groundbreaking volume redefines the role of olfaction, exploring its influence on literature, culture, and history, from classical texts to its implications in contemporary branding.
Andreas Gryphius and T.S. Eliot’s “The Dissociation of Sensibility”
A new appraisal of Andreas Gryphius, the great Baroque poet, through T.S. Eliot’s “Dissociation of Sensibility.” Supported by new translations, it shows how Eliot illuminates Gryphius as Gryphius illuminates Eliot. Both suffered the cataclysm of civil war and despair.
This book investigates how myth and folklore in Indian fiction are paradoxically used to generate new modes of writing. It explores this stylistic innovation, the use of an ‘oral narrative style’, and the relationship between women and folklore in South Asian tradition.
The Urban Environmental Crisis in India
This compendium represents a unique collection of thoughts and views of various water management experts. It highlights that the future of the emerging urban society lies in the proper management of waste and not in mere disposal.