Leslie Fiedler

Prem Kumari Srivastava is an associate professor of English at Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi (on deputation from Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi).

“Srivastava offers an engaging assessment of Leslie Fiedler, who was heard by all with rapt attention--admired by some for opening new doors and reviled by others for his candor and for his bearhug embrace of culture, both high and low.”—Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English, Ohio University; “The ideal scholar of Leslie Fiedler, who reveled in explicating otherness, would be another erudite outsider. Offering a personal assessment of Fiedler’s enduring contributions, Prem Kumari Srivastava of the University of Delhi is that scholar.”—Steven G. Kellman, University of Texas at San Antonio, Co-editor Leslie Fiedler and American Culture; “Leslie Fiedler heralded a revolution in literary criticism during the last half of the twentieth century. Srivastava shows us why his work continues to fire the critical imagination.”—Ronald Strickland, Michigan Technological University.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChronologyList of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction1. Fiedler’s Credo: Literary and Critical; ­Socio-political and Pedagogical2. Comradeship, Male Bonding or…?: ­Re-readings and ­Re-evaluations 3. Integration of the “Other”: Indians, Jews, Blacks, Freaks and… 4. Toward Popular Culture: Establishment of a Pop Guru5. Perspectives of the “Other”: Postcolonial and Feminist Readings Conclusion: Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Fiedler Honey!Chapter NotesBibliographyIndex