Decolonised literature deals with the undoing of the conditional and directed thinking of colonialism and the decolonisation as the mindset of the writer exhibits the withdrawal from the colonial power and refers to a new thinking, especially after World War II. This book with its generic manifolds includes almost all the genres of literature. With theoretic norms and Iwith their praxis, the book specifically reveals in some details the reproduction and retention of memories for decolonisation and brings into function the axonal and neural nerve cells for recreating the things categorically. The theoretic hypothesis resounds and regenerates inside human psyche the sense of freedom and an inclination to liberate the self from slavery. Out of the twenty-two papers, some selected ones are textualized in this book for analysing the totemic and ethnographic issues and related to the process of decolonisation in literature. The concept and propositional properties which come up with the writings written after the process s of decolonisation bring forth the historicity of history as an essential fabric of the society. Some papers included in the contents of Some this book reveal the transcultural issues along with the text of translation and transcreations. The fictional works of the writers such as R K Narayan, Anita Desia, Khushwant Singh, Arundati Roy, papers and Arvind Adiga and others brings into being the contextual and situational realities of the decolonised pattern of literature. The papers on the art of drama and short stories give extra weight to the imaginative sapience of lok carita (Folklore). The papers on Girish Karnad, Badal Sarkar and others emphasise on the cultural, historical, and ethnographic properties. are included on the studies of Dalit Literature. Smeared with a taint of feudalistic society, the papers on dalits and the process of dalitisation show social injustice and inhumanities done to the weaker sections of society; they also unveil the causative and actuating effects f the hierarchical pattern of Brahmanisation and Sanskritisation. We are sure that the essays included in the text of this book will be a source of fructification in order to understand the literature of the decolonised nations. The book in the present format will be useful to both the scholars and common readers alike.
Prof. Alok Chansoria ant of P.G. Studies in English at Varanasi in 1960. He the Head, Ischolar of literature, was born at Hawabagh College Jabalpur and also holds the Office of the Chairman, Board of Studies in English, Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya Jabalpur. Prof. Chansoria's erudite ingenuity is manifest in his three publications, namely; 11 Nehru's Literary Works, Emotions of Shakespeare's Tragedies and Nabhinal (A Collection of his Poems in Hindi and English). In addition to these he has written a number of research articles which exhibit his penetrating critical insight on literary subjects as well as issues of national importance. Many research scholars are pursuing research under his adroit supervision. The present anthology is his fourth work which displays, besides creativity, his outstanding editorial skills. Dr. Shahewar Syed a discerning savant of literature, was born in 1970 at Chandrapur District in Maharashtra. She has been teaching English Language and Literature as Senior Assistant Professor at Hawabagh College, Jabalpur for more than twenty-one years. She has to her credit a book on Emotions of Shakespeare's Tragedies and a number of research papers published in Journals of national and international repute. These reflect her sagacity of English Literary Criticism. Eight Research Scholars are pursuing their Ph.D. under under her able guidance. This book exemplifies her dexterity as an editor.
I have often introspected if straight-jacketed categories like Commonwealth Literature and Postcolonial Literature effectively describe the wealth of literary works engendered by the decolonized nations adjusting to and revelling in their new found political liberty. The expressions often seemed to me quite inadequate and strangely lacking. As the works of authors in these countries have been undoubtedly spectacular both in content and quality and, to me, seems to be the beginning of a new genre in the studies of literature, therefore, when I organized a national seminar on the subject, I made bold to title it as "New English Literature of the Decolonized." As many of these decolonized nations had a rich literary background of their own prior to them being colonized, I had used the word "New" in order to differentiate their ancient literature with the literature they have produced after being decolonized. A critical insight into the study of this new literature will provide definite evidence to the fact that how much of this new literature seems to be distinguishably different from its earlier part. Whether considering structurally, thematically, linguistically or culturally, a discerning scholar will certainly be able to categorically point out the changes he would. come across with respect to both these literatures. Besides, I understand this to be the right time for the scholars of English Literature to ponder, to excogitate, to deliberate and to contemplate on the literature of a period, which is marked by spectacular events and colossal achievements throughout the globe. Though the process of decolonization has a long history, beginning from the 18th century when today's most powerful country, the USA, got decolonized in the year 1776, but this book would primarily concentrate on the 20th and the 21" century period, after the II World War, when almost three dozen nations of the world got decolonized. The process of decolonization, we know, was not a smooth and peaceful transfer of power by the colonizers to the colonized but it was a step incumbent upon the colonizers to take due to the force of mammoth local nationalist movements undertaken by the people belonging to the colonized countries. In fact, these nationalist movements literally forced the European empires to leave Asia, Africa, Middle East, Caribbean and the Pacific Islands.
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