Books in the South Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture Studies series

In Cosmopolitanism in the Indian English Novel, Mostafa Azizpour Shoobie argues that select novels by Indian writers in English largely present a kind of micro-cosmopolitanism which preserves nation as a primary site for social and cultural formation while opening it up to critique.

The book takes an interdisciplinary approach in deconstructing nation-branding exercises in neoliberal India, utilizing the fetish as a critical device to demonstrate how postcolonial nation-building can become colonizing.

Vimsatika ranks among the world's most misunderstood texts but Kumarila's historic refutation allows Vimsatika to be read in its own text-historical context. This compelling, radically revolutionary re-reading of Vimsatika delineates a hermeneutic of humor indispensable to discerning its medicinal message.

A Passage to Globalism: Globalization, Identities, and South Asian Diasporic Fiction in Britain responds to the need for a critical framework that is able to address the relationships between identities and contemporary globality. This book asks what role does South Asian diasporic fiction play in constructing narratives of globalization?