English Paradigm in India

Dr. Shweta Rao Garg teaches at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India. She was awarded Gujarat University Gold medal in English during her B.A. and received a Graduation Scholarship during her M.A. Her research on the depiction of food in Indian-American women’s writings earned her a Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in 2010. She also won the Sahitya Akademi Prize for translation in 2008. Dr. Deepti Gupta is a Professor of English and the Dean of International Students at Punjab University, Chandigarh, India. She has more than thirty years of experience in teaching and research with several national and international publications in ELT , Linguistics and Literature.

• Introduction.- Comparative Literature in India in the 21st Century.- Confronting the Canon Contrapuntally: the Example of Edward Said.- Debating, Challenging or Accepting Patriarchy? Assessing Indian Women’s Role in Society and Creative Writing.- Social Imagination and Nation Image: Exploring the socio-cultural milieu in Regional Indian Short Stories Translated in English.- Idli, Dosai, Sambar, Coffee: Consuming Tamil Identity.- Curfewed Night in Elsinore: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider.- Interrogating Gendered Spirituality in Phaniyamma and The Saga of South Kamrup”.- Resisting Patriarchy Without Separatism: A Re-Reading of  Shashi Deshpande’s   The Dark Holds No Terrors.- Cultural Assimilation and the Politics of Beauty in Postwar American Fiction by Ethnic Women Writers.- Agha Shahid Ali and Contemporary World Poetry.- Critique of Normality in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree.- The Personal is Political: Slavery, Trauma, and the White Man’s Legacy.- Women in Diaspora, Stranded on the No-Man’s Land: A Study of Selected Works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.- Food Images and Identity in the Selected Writings of Three Indian American Women Writers.- Resistance, Resilience, Survival: Role of Family and Community in Jack Davis’s No Sugar.- Mediation of Multimodal Word Literature and Indirect Translation: Analysing The Adventures of Tintin.- Institutional Discourses, Technology-mediated Practices and Pedagogy: A Critical Perspective.- Building Reputational Bridges over Crises Situations.- Observations on an Instance of Negative Interaction in Sarala Mahabharata.