A Bi-Annual E-Journal of English Studies

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Text Box: Cross-fertilisation among cultures becomes a possibility in a multilingual society. With the coming of age of ‘World Literature’ this has become a reality. This is the second issue focussing on ‘World Literature’. We have tried to include writers representing a wide spectrum of literature around the world in this issue also. In continuation with the last issue, this time we have papers on American writers like Toni Morrison and Arthur Miller, Irish writer Seamus Heaney, Indian writers like Bhabhani Bhattacharya and dalit writer Kishore Shantabai Kale, Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa and one paper on Modern Indian Drama. All these papers deliberate on different topical issues dealt with by the writers. We hope that together they are able to present a comprehensive picture of the world at large because, “… finally our conception of the world, whether medieval, modern or post-modern, would ultimately determine the way world literature would be represented in the future.”   Dr. Mukesh William’s guest article on “Representations of World Literature” concerns the conceptualization of universal categories in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how these inflated categories, ranging from geo-politics to world literature, were imposed by European philosophers and writers on the rest of the world for nearly one hundred and fifty years. This is in keeping with what Anita Desai, one of the most eminent writers of fiction in India said in her acceptance speech on being conferred the Fellowship by the Sahitya Akademi. According to her some of the most lively and vital writing in English now comes from the erstwhile colonies making English a legitimately indigenous language to India. In the interview section this time we have Dr. Nilanshu Agrawal talking to Christopher Rollason and Ludmila Volná . The creative section of this issue has as a mark of tribute to Dr. Mahanand Sharma, four of his poems. He was an eminent scholar of English literature. He passed away recently at Meerut.   We hope you will enjoy reading this issue. Our next two issues will focus on “Voice of the Marginalised in English Literature. Submissions and suggestions are, as always, welcome.    Best wishes,   Abha Shukla Kaushik                                                                                             Malti Agarwal    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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