DISCOURSING MINORITY: In-Text and Co-Text

Discoursing Minority: In-Text and Co-Text makes an attempt to bring out the richness and variety of minority discourse across histories, cultures, and spaces. It engages with the notion(s) of minority to interrogate stereotypes and draws upon verbal and cultural texts to define and develop a larger discourse that underlines the major markers of our postcolonial world. It examines literary testimonies and art forms, both classical and modern, to explore broader areas of contestation among peoples and communities. To meet its greater aim, it develops theoretical parameters and puts them to test in critical practice. The book is dialogic in nature and comparative in approach as it makes way for Minority Studies, both within and outside India, to raise questions and seek possible answers.

Anisur Rahman is a Professor in the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi. He has worked and published in the areas of literary translation and postcolonial literature(s) with special reference to the literatures of India, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. His publications include critical books on Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, and New Literatures in English, a volume of modern Urdu poetry in English translation, two edited books of critical essays on literary translation, and a co-edited collection of essays on Indian English women poets.

Supriya Agarwal is Professor and Head, Department of English, and Dean, School of Humanities and Languages at Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer. She has authored one book on the orphan women characters in the Victorian fiction and co-edited three anthologies on the writers of the Caribbean diaspora; gender and narrative; and gender, history and culture. She is currently interested in comparative studies and is working now on the concept of cultural sustainability and the role of literature in the present multidisciplinary scenario.

Bhumika Sharma is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer. She is keen to discover new realms in interdisciplinary studies. Her research interests include gender studies, postcolonial literature, Indian classics and African American writing. Her recent publication “Baldwin’s Quest for Panacea: A Case Study” with Springer has appeared in the international Journal of African American Studies.