(In)fusion Approach

Ranjan Ghosh is a Professor in the Department of English at Wroclaw University in Poland. He has published numerous articles on comparative aesthetics, critical theory, Indian English Literature, historical theory and Indian historiography.

We have heard about the death of theory for a decade, but of course the real question is what are the possibilities of theory now. This volume, with its sterling cast of contributors, offers some answers. It argues for a programmatic heterogeneity, fusing theories without disciplinary prejudice.

• Chapter 1 PrefacePart 2 I. (In)fusion Approach: The Critical ManifestoPart 3 II. (In)fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits: 'Thinking' Text and (In)fusion Theory; Postcoloniality, Reading, and Theory; The Ethics of (In)fusion; Cyberspace: (Im)porting (In)fusion Theory; Post-colonial HorizonPart 4 III. (In)fusionizing a Few Indian English Novels: The Epigon Coming the First: Midnight's Children as the Postmodern Authentic; Taking "Experience" Seriously in Anita Desai's The Village By the Sea; "Tents blooming in the coconuPart 5 IV. EpilogueChapter 6 Writing, Indian English Literature and (In)fusionChapter 7 IndexChapter 8 About the ContributorsChapter 9 About the Editor