Rural Livelihood and Food Security

Contents Foreword Acknowledgements I Hues of literature 1 Imagining and imaging India Random reflections on Field notes on Democracy listening to grasshoppersCR Visweswara Rao 2 Theme of Loneliness in Vikram Seth?s The Golden GateS Krishna Sarma 3 Subaltern subjectivity and resistance Dalit social history in post-colonial Indian fiction in EnglishMittapalli Rajeshwar 4 Fifty Turbulent Years of Independent India in Gita Mehta?s Snames and LaddersJ Yellaiah and KV Ramana Chjary 5 Vijay Tendulkar?s Silence The Court is in Session A conflict between innocence and CrueltyP Obula Reddy and Hussainvali Shaik 6 Into the lap of eternity on the Ganga GhatB Parvathi 7 Social and sexual conflicts in Ismat Chughtai?s The Crooked LineCLL Jayaprada and D Suvarna Suni 8 The period of renaissance in Telugu literatureMadhuranthakam Narendra 9 Yogic realism the Indian story traditionK Suma Kirana 10 History as fiction in Chaman Nahal?s The Triumph of the TricolourG Chenna Reddy 11 Mulkraj Anand?s untouchable a reflection of Dalit consciousnessT Pratap Reddy 12 Interculturation in Bhabani Bhattacharya?s A Dream in HawaiiR Poli Reddy 13 Race class and gender as postcolonial constructs the triple identity of African American women in Toni Morrison?s SulaA Hari Prasanna 14 Black feminist consciousness Gloria Naylor?s The Women of Brewster PlaceT Jeevan Kumar 15 Thomas Pynchon the post modern novelistGV Sudhakar 16 The Ironic mode as a textural principle in TS Eliot?s The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock and Sweeney among The NightingalesV Gopal Reddy 17 Margaret Drabble and women?s worldVVN Rajendra Prasad and M Durga Bhavani 18 Othello a feminist and post colonial readingN Ramadevi 19 Antigone and Joan individual versus institutionT Viswanadha Rao 20 The game of art and the game of life a study of Luigi PirandelloR Saraswathi 21 Identity subjectivity and voice a reading of Austin Clarke?s The Polished HoeC Vijayasree 22 Reconciliation an equipment for living a study of Flora Nwapa?s fictionK Nirupa Rani and J Lalitha Sridevi 23 Post-colonial consciousness in VS Naipaul?s the The Mimic MenVR Badiger 24 KS Maniam finding a center and appropriating Language in Malaysian contextN Usha 25 Dilemmas of the double hyphenated Arnold HarrichandHarrichand Itwaru?s UnreturningB Indira II Literary theory and English Language Teaching 26 Dreams and their relationsK Narayana Chandran 27 Gaps and leaps literary translation as a mediating means of intercross cultural and linguistic communication a case studyCh A Rajendra Prasad 28 New historicism a Greenblattian modelP Suneetha 29 Using authentic materials for instruction at secondary level in Government schoolsG Damodar and T Sarath Babu 30 Soft skills through Indian narrative tradition for curricular developmentSumita Roy 31 Teaching English at higher level a paradigm shiftP Padma 32 Conversation a social skillY Somalatha 33 Teaching English using technologyV SwarnalathaFrom the Foreword The festschrift Critical Expressions a volume of articles on English Language and literature is a welcome contribution to English studies in general The book comprises essays on literary theory English Language teaching American Literature British Literature Commonwealth Literature European Literature in Translation Indian Literature in Translation and Indian writing in English All the contributing authors in their gleaming voices have thrown fresh light on various topics of interest and offered critical insights and perceptive analyses Though the articles incorporated in this volume do not confine to one area of English Literature much emphasis is laid on Indian writing in English All the articles are explosive incisive and insightful and add luster to the critical scholarship of the authors 358 pp.…