Contents
From the Editor's Desk
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1. Mahasweta Devi's Kunti and the Nishadin:
A Re-visionist Text
Madhu Singh
7
2. Cross-cultural Encounters on the Bengali Stage:
In Search of a New Theatre Semiology(?)
Abhijit Sen
16
3. Indian Women Writing / Righting the Nation in and
through Fiction: A Postcolonial Perspective
Sujatha Vijayaraghavan
28
4. 'The Knotted Road to Freedom'
Charanjeet Kaur
38
5. Postmodern Co-existence of Multiple Identities for
Women: A Multicultural Approach
Joydeep Bhattachayya
46
6. Aesthetics of Nature: Fictional Representation of Nature
in Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
K. Venugopal Reddy
50
7. Evolution of English Language teaching in India:
History, Current status and the Future
Shantanu Ghosh
62
8. Towards a Transnational Citizenry-Re-imagining the
University through Multi-cultural Literature
Mayuri Deka
75
9. The Masked Trickster: (In) visibility in
Alice Walker’s The Third Life
Seema Murugan
81
10. Negotiating Identities: A Study of Adrienne Kennedy’s
“The Owl Answers”
Guru Charan Behera
92
11. Decimation as Civilization in Colonial America:
A Theoretical Overview
Jyotirmaya Tripathy
100
12. Ralph Ellison's Invisble Man: A study of
Black and White Stereotypes
Kirti Kapur
116
13. Queering Waiting for Godot: Decentering
the Heterosexist Model
Akhil Katyal
125
14. Rama, Of course, is My Daughter!
Kolakaluri Enoch
Translated from Telugu by
C.L.L.Jayaprada
135
15. Review
Angelie Multani
148