Exploring the postcolonial terrain where ‘dislocation and relocation intertwine, where hope and disillusionment converge, where violence erupts and the human spirit prevails,’ Reconceiving Postcolonialism: Visions and Revisions aims at expanding the canon of Postcolonial Literature. The book draws from the immense wealth of postcolonial writing and provides new perspectives on a wide range of writers as well as on the pertinent issues in the field of postcolonial writing and theory. Analyzing the major paradigms of postcolonial critique, the anthology deals with the emergent issues related to the engagements of postcolonial societies in a ‘glocal’ age. The critical engagement opens up the possibility to reimagine the postcolonial mystique and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of postcolonial theory and its engagement with significant changes within the contemporary world. Equally suitable for students, researchers and teachers of English literature, this collection provides an in-depth introduction to debates within postcolonial theory and criticism.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Feminine Psyche and The Narrative Strategies–Neeru Tandon; 2. Depiction of Childhood Friendship in Male and Female Novelists: A Comparative Study of R.K. Narayan’s Swami and Friends and Shena Mackay’s The Orchard on Fire–Tripti Karekatti and Rani Nalawade; 3. Multicultural Melbourne: Mapping Identity in Christos Tsiolkas’ Loaded–Hariclea Zengos; 4. Kim Scott’s Benang and Doris Pilkington’s Towards the Rabbit-Proof Fence: Conscious Racism and Identity De-orientation–Sarbojit Biswas; 5. Cosmopolitanism vs Americanism—A Critique of American Cosmopolitanism in the Works of Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie–Garima Gupta; 6. The Terrorist in the Text: The Deictic Construction of Otherness–Esterino Adami; 7. Character and Fantasy in Mahesh Dattani’s Bravely Fought the Queen–Subir Dhar; 8. The Fashion of Postcolonialism and Karnad’s Hayavadana–Gauri Shankar Jha; 9. “Borders don’t Really Apply”: A Note on Diasporic Dimensions in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason and The Shadow Lines–K. Mishra; 10. Theme of Cosmic Loneliness as an Extension of Individual Loneliness as Delineated in the Science Fiction Writings of Arthur C. Clarke–Geetha B.; 11. De-Africanising Womanhood and the Dilemma of Africanity: Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter and Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen–Mbuh Mbuh Tennu; 12. Decolonization and the Politics of Language–Vandana Datta; 13. Anglophone Cameroon Poetry: Poetics and the Politics of the New Deal–John Nkemngong Nkengasong; 14. Women as Victims: Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters and A Married Woman–Malti Agarwal; 15. Navigating Myth and Tradition in Feminist Emirati Poetics: An Intertextual Approach–Saddik M. Gohar; 16. Re-Configuration of Colonialism or the Negation of the Self in Postcolonial Cameroon in Bole Butake’s Plays–Emmanuel N. Ngwang; 17. Nature and Man in Seamus Heaney–Anju Bala Agrawal; 18. Need for Racial Harmony and Universal Brotherhood: A Critical Response to The Nowhere Man–S. John Peter Joseph; 19. The Diasporic Poetry of G.S. Sharat Chandra–Basavaraj Naikar; 20. Equating ‘the other half of her equation’: An Appraisal of Androgynous Subsistence in Wuthering Heights, Debi Chaudhurani and Sula–Koyel Chakrabarty; List of Contributors