As the academic literature is growing, the vibrant field of global analysis is increasing. Shining a light on the pertinent aspects of postcolonial writing, New Urges in Postcolonial Literature, which is an anthology of scholarly articles, brings together emerging critical voices to engage in the major debates within existing postcolonial studies, addressing issues such as hybridization, subaltern voices, decolonization, multiculturalism and border cultures. The authors critically examine the relevance of postcolonial theoretical perspectives and discuss the issues of empowerment and disempowerment; tensions between modernity and tradition; and ideas of development as connected to understandings of race, gender, caste and subalternity. The book engages with the issues raised by contemporary practitioners, and offers a variety of illuminating insights on the fascinating subject of Postcolonial Studies which will enlighten the students, researchers and teachers of English literature.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. The Cultural Designation of Feminism: Theory and Praxis–Nandini Sahu; 2. Spaces, Gender, and Healing in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1982) and Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1981)–Emmanuel N. Ngwang; 3. Traditionalizing Christianity in Kenjo Jumbam’s The White Man of God–Ernest L. Veyu; 4. Exquisite Depiction of Cultural Sensitivities in Doris Lessing–Devika; 5. The Poetry of Kamala Das: A Study in Radical Feminism–Purnendu Chatterjee; 6. The Reactive Expatriate–Alessandro Monti; 7. Demarcating a Marginalized Lineage: Reading Robinson Crusoe through Roxana and into Foe–Natalie Wall; 8. The Paradigm of Ambivalence in the Women Characters of Rohinton Mistry–Anita Myles; 9. The Rewriting of Personal Narratives in the Exile’s Quest for Home: Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa and The Loves of Cass McGuire–Elisa Armellino; 10. Inner Progression of a Repressed Soul in Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting–Meenakshi Raman and Sushila Rathore; 11. Bridges in the Gap between British and American Women Poets: A Feminist Reading of Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath and Hilda Doolittle’s Helen in Egypt–Rosalyn M. Mutia; 12. Immigrant Experience and Pain of Exile in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake–Srutimala Duara; 13. Re-writing the Myth: Romantic Love in Margaret Drabble’s The Waterfall–Ranu Uniyal; 14. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism–Anita Singh; 15. The Idea of Selling the Idea of India in Recent Indian English Fiction–Shubha Tiwari; 16. Nature as Metaphor: A Study of Anita Desai’s In Custody–Reena Mitra; 17. Multiculturalism in the Recent Australian Short Fiction: An Indian Point-of-View–Pradeep Trikha; 18. Teaching Achebe and Conrad at the University of Burundi in Bujumbura–Athanasius Ayuk-Ako; 19. White Man at the End of History: A Comparative Study of Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace–Arpa Ghosh; 20. Indigenous vs. Non-Indigenous: A Cultural Interface in Multicultural Australia–Jaslene Dhaliwal; 21. The Dialectics of Enchained Sensibility in The Foreigner–Basavara; Naikar; List of Contributors