Sk Sagir Ali is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. His published works include the edited book Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance Margins and Extremism (Routledge) and the monograph, Culture, Community and Difference in Select Contemporary British Muslim Fictions (forthcoming, Routledge).

• Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction – Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys SK SAGIR ALIPART IMyth Criticism 1 Portrait of Mythical and Archetypal Colour: A Reading of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man DEBADITYA MUKHOPADHYAYPART IIPoststructuralism and Deconstruction 2 Emily Dickinson’s “Nature”: A Poetic Metaphoricity and the Power of a Poststructuralist Hermeneutic MOUSUMI GUHA BANERJEE3 Narrating the “New City/ies”: Urban Studies in Literature and Cityscapes in Graphic Novels SUBASHISH BHATTACHARJEE4 “To Save the Tale From the Artist”: A Deconstructive Reading of Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers SANKAR PRASAD SINGHA5 Orpheus’s Gaze and the Blanchotian Literature of the Unword: Locating the Ethical Finitudes of the Il y a in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot SWAYAMDIPTA DASPART IIIPsychoanalytic Criticism 6 The Whore and the Virgin: Sexual Non-Rapport in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Dialectics of the Obsessional Subject DEEPTESH SEN7 Truth in Literature: Lacan’s Joyce and the Question of Applied Psychoanalysis DIPANJAN MAITRA8 Rewriting the Psychotic Other of Author-Function in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake 93ARKA CHATTOPADHYAYPART IVQueer Theory 9 “He Had Beauty, Though”: The Queerness of Ruskin Bond’s Delhi Is Not Far NILADRI R. CHATTERJEEPART VReader-Response Criticism 10 The Problematic of Reading: The Intra-Textual Readers in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead MAMATA SENGUPTAPART VINew Historicism 11 Revisiting the Rushdiean peeling, fragmenting palimpsest called Pakistan: A New Historicist-Feminist Approach NASIMA ISLAMPART VIIMarxism 12 Marxism and Literary Thought: A View ANAND PRAKASHPART VIIIPostcolonialism 13 “This Is Not Knowledge; This Is Vanity”: Phrenology and the Mimicry of Western Science in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason SAKOON SINGHPART IXCultural Study 14 Politics of Purity and Pollution: A Study of Cultural Voyeurism in KanthapuraSK SAGIR ALI15 Abuse, Coercion, and Power in Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” SHILADITYA SENPART XTranslation Study 16 Intermediality and Translation: Pedagogical Possibilities TUTUN MUKHERJEEIndex