Books published by Partridge India

Ever since the end of the Cuban crisis, cultural studies have gained significant status in American and Western universities. In India, however, the cultural studies programs were somehow interlinked with interdisciplinary studies in English and vernacular literatures. Dr. Pradnyashailee Sawai decided to write a monograph on two major Jewish novels, The Victim by Saul Bellow and Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Interestingly, these two prominent Jewish writers demonstrate two very different perspectives on Jewish life in America and generally in Europe after the Holocaust. While Bellow is extremely sensitive to the nuances of everyday life in USA, Singer delves deep into the traces of a bygone era.

This book is a collection of scholarly essays on various literature, film, as well as literary figures from a postcolonial point of view. The deep meditation and keen observations from postcolonial point of view of W. B. Yeats or the Bollywood adaptation of Shakespeare as well as Rushdi, Amitabha Ghosh, or Jhumpa Lahiri by modern Indian scholars have given the book a fresh flavour. The studies on Chinua Achebe, Benjamin Zephaniah, and Doris Lessing have added new dimensions to this. On the other hand, the chapters on color imperialism and racial arrogance have contributed to show different angles of postcolonialism.