Remapping the Indian Postcolonial Canon

Nirmala Menon is Professor of Literature at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. Her research spans postcolonial literature and theory, digital humanities and translation studies, and open access academic publishing in India. Her most recent publications include Migrant Identities of Creole Cosmopolitans: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality (edited with Marika Preziuso, 2014). She has published her work in international journals and presented at national and international conferences. She is on the advisory board of Open Library for the Humanities (OLH), and is an executive member of MLA’s CLCS Global South Forum and its Chairperson for 2016-17.

• 1. Introduction: The Rationale for Remapping the Postcolonial Canon: Why Remap.- 2. Representing the Postcolonial Subaltern: A Comparative Reading of Three Subaltern Narratives by O.V. Vijayan, Arundhati Roy, and Mahashweta Devi.- 3. The Hullabaloo about Hybridity: Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss, Girish Karnad’s Yayati and Heaps of Broken Images, and Lalithambika Antherjanam’s Cast Me Out If You Will.- 4. Re-Imagining Postcolonial Translation Theory.- 5. Beyond the Indian Postcolonial.- Conclusion.- Appendix 1: Wang-Chu by Bhisham Sahni, Translated by Nirmala Menon.- Appendix 2: Wang-Chu by Bhisham Sahni in Original Hindi.- Bibliography.- Index.-